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Horse general exam

RR: 8-15

HR: 36-44

temp: 37.5-38

Foal general exam

RR: 20-40

HR: 70-120

temp: 37.5-38

Lymph nodes present in horse

submandibular

- caudal to facial artery

retropharyngeal

- dorsolateral edges of larynx

parotid

- caudal to ramus of mandible

prescapular

prefermoral

Iliac

mucous membrane

normal;

- pink-pale pink

- moist

- CPR: u 2sec

anemia

- pale/white

cynaotic

- blue

- hypoxia

brick red

- inc. perfusion

- systemic inflammation

icterus

- yellow

- bilirubin accumilation --> liver problem

spider vein

- endotoxemia

- systemic infection

where to check pulse in horse

facial artery

- on the back of the jaw

transverse facial artery

- along the eye, under bony prominence

digital artery - laminitis

HR above 80 = serious problem

HR above 60 = pain/excitement

where to take blood

1. jugular vein

2. superficial thoracic vein

3. antebrachial cephalic vein

4. lateral saphenous vein (foals)

location of stifle joint

drugs used in sedation

alpha-2 agonist

- Xylazine (IV,IM)

- detomidine (IV,IM)

- romifidine (IV,IM)

opiods

- buthorphanol (IV,IM)

where would you insert needle for thoracocenthesis (pleurocentesis)?

- The 6th, 7th or 8th intercostal space

- just above the palpable bulge of the costochondral junction and dorsal to the lateral thoracic vein

- on a horizontal line drawn from point of the shoulder

where would you insert needle for abdominocenthesis?

- An area of 10 cm×10 cm to the right of midline at the most dependent aspect of the ventral abdomen is clipped and aseptically prepared using povidone-iodine or chlorhexidine scrub and alcohol.

- should not be performed to the left of midline because of the potential for splenic injury and subsequent hemoabdomen.

where would you auscultate bronchial three?