Values for monitoring Flashcards
1
Q
Abnormalities
TEMPERATURE
A
Above 38,5
2
Q
Abnormalities
HEART RATE
A
Above 50 beats pr min
3
Q
Abnormalities
RESPIRATORY RATE
A
Above 20 breaths per min
4
Q
Abnormalities
CAPPILLARY REFILL TIME (CRT)
A
Above 2 sec
5
Q
Abnormalities
PACKED CELL VOLUME (PCV)
A
Above 45% or Below 20%
6
Q
Abnormalities
TOTAL PLASMA PROTEIN CONC
A
Under 4 g/dl or above 9 g/dl
7
Q
Abnormalities
COLOUR OF MUCOUS MEMBRANES
A
Dark pink, dirty red, cyanotic, purple, white
8
Q
Abnormalities
GUT SOUNDS
A
Quiet or abcent
(All quadrants for 1 min: Both side dorsally in the paralumbar fossa, ventrally in the line with the stifle joint.
all 4 quadrants
Normal = +
Mildly decreased = +/-
Decreased= -/+
Abcent = -
Hyperperistalsis = ++
9
Q
COLIC SIGNS
A
- Restlessness,
- Flank watching,
- kicking towards abdomen,
- pawing,
- lying down and getting up,
- lateral recumbancy for a longer period,
- moaning.
10
Q
Abnormalities
HOOVES
A
- Warm-hot hoof walls
- Bounding digital pulse
- Reluctance to walk
- Weight shifting
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11
Q
Abnormalities
SURGICAL WOUND
A
- Dirty
- Swollen
- Warm
- Painfull
- Discharging
12
Q
Abnormalities
BANDAGE
A
- Came off
- Slipped
- Dirty
- Swelling proximal to bandage
- and or oedema
13
Q
Abnormalities
ORTOPEDIC CASES
A
- Severe lameness or lateral recumancy for longer period of time
- Dullness
- Lack of apetite
