intro to production animal medicine

What is production animal service?

– veterinary care to dairy and beef, kettles, pigs, goats, sheep, alpaca, poultry, and camels

– Individual animal, medicine, surgery, and reproduction in the field or at the hospital

– Offer her health and reproduction and preventative medicine

What are some things that are available in a farm hand truck?

-surgery kit

– Mineral and oral drenching equipment

– lameness gear

– Calving jack, fetotomes, obstetrics box for dystocia

– Stainless steel buckets

– Cleaning solutions

– Bandages

– Examination and rectal gloves

– Clippers

– RMT solution, and testing dishes

– Fridges

– Halters and ropes

What are two examples of a reproductive emergency?

– Uterine prolapse

– Dystocia

What are three examples of an abdominal emergency?

– RDA

– rumen acidosis

– Bloat

What is an example of a metabolic emergency?

Milk fever

What are some other examples of emergency?

Urinary obstruction

Airway obstruction

Toxic mastitis

Downer cow

Laceration to utter or milk vein

What are some things that you might need to do during a call out? (8)

-triage

– Emergency vehicle

Client consent

Safety of team

Clinical examine history of patient

Set up, cleanup

Treatment administration

biosecurity protocol

What is part of admitting patients? (6)

– Consent forms filled out during initial consultation

– Hospital charts filled out daily

– Daily weights

– Cages and pens are clean daily

– Daily food

– Medication administration

Catheters and fluids

– Locate a van

– Choose suitable catheter

– Clip prep, and sanitize the area

– place catheter

– Secure catheter with either suture or superglue

– Affix w t-port or extension set

– Discuss with clinician your fluid of choice and why

– Attach fluids and administer

Items needed to administer oral fluids

– Frick speculum

– Pump

– Oral tubing

– Water and medications

How to administer oral fluids?

– Restrain the patient and pass the Frick speculum

– Pass the oral tubing

– Check placement

– Pump fluids

– Kink the hose twice and removed

Where can you take blood from? (5)

– Jugular

– Coccygeal van (tail)

– Arterial vein

– Subcutaneous abdominal (milk) vein (cattle.)

– Cephalic vein (sheep)

What are three common blood collection vials?

– Two, four, or 10 mL EDTA (purple top)

– Two, four, or 10 mL clot (red top)

– 4 mL Lith hep (green top)

What are some examples of surgical procedures? (14)

-castration

-LDA/RDA

-surgical dehorning

-cesarean

-rumenotomy

-rumenostomy (rumen fistula)

-disbudding

-prolapses (uterine and vaginal)

-blocked urinary tract

-umbilical hernia repair

-mammory laceration repair

-laceration repair

-exploratory laparotomy

-eye enucleation

How to prepare for surgery (8)

-restrain patient in crush facility

-administer chemical restraint, if needed

-clip the area

-wash down area with water first

-prep with chlorhexidine wash

-prep with surgical alcohol

-prep with chlorhexidine concentrate and methylated spirits

-administer local anesthetic

Surgery prep (8)

-gloves and gowns

-Open surgical pack

-place scalpel blades on the kit

-suture material and flush

-administration of postoperative analgesia and antibiotics

-spray topical antibiotic and fly repellent

-remove all sharps from kit

-scrub kit

Biosecurity

-wash boots of gross contaminants

-disinfect equipment and boots with F10 or Virkon

-change overalls between farms and patients

-wear examination gloves when touching patients

-place all contaminants into bio security bags and dispose

-uphold excellent personal hygiene

disbudding (7)

-Weigh

-sedate analgesia

-local block

-clip area

-hot iron

-antibiotic and fly spray

-reversal agent