Traumatic Reticuloperitonitis (Hardware Disease)

what causes it (Hardware Disease)

Ingestion of a hard, foreign body

clinical signs of Local or diffuse peritonitis (12) (Hardware Disease)

1. sudden anorexia

2. decreased or totally absent rumen movements

3. subacute abdominal pain

4. rigid muscles of back and abdomen

5. reluctance to walk

6. may grunt

7. may arch back

8. profound toxemia

9. severe depression

10. recumbency

11. coma

12. death

clinical signs of Acute pericarditis (6) (Hardware Disease)

1. heart sac can be perforated

2. extreme infection of sac and myocardium

3. recumbency or stands with back arched and elbows abducted

4. rapid weight loss

5. rapid, shallow breathing

6. increased pulse

clinical signs of Vagus indigestion (5 (1 + 4)) (Hardware Disease)

paralysis of the stomachs can cause

1. anorexia

2. delayed passage of ingesta

3. passage of soft pasty feces

4. free gas bloat

what does the vagues nerve innervate (2) (Hardware Disease)

forestomachs and abomasum

What is the initials MM (2) (Hardware Disease)

pale / grey, and tacky.

What is CRT (Hardware Disease)

An increased CRT

What is (HR) (Hardware Disease)

greater than 80 bpm

What is respiratory rate (RR) (Hardware Disease)

greater than 30

What is temperature (Hardware Disease)

A temperature greater than 39 degrees Celsius

how to diagnose genrally (4) (Hardware Disease)

1. cbc

2. chem

3. abdominocentesis

4. ultrasound

what would a cbc show in genral (2) (Hardware Disease)

1. plasma increased

2. low RBC

what would be genrally looked for in a chem pannel (Hardware Disease)

fibrinogen

diagnosis for Peritonitis (9) (Hardware Disease)

1. differential leukocyte count

2. total plasma protein is often increased

3. fibrinogen levels may be increased

4. abdominocentesis

5. rigid muscles along back

6. reluctant to walk

7. arch back

8. depression

9. recumbancy

what is seen in a differential leukocyte count in a Peritonitis (3) (Hardware Disease)

1. often a neutrophilia

2. regenerative left shift in the first 3 days

3. degenerative left shift

what is seen in a abdominocentesis in a Peritonitis (3) (Hardware Disease)

1. look at total WBC

2. total protein

3. culture

diagnosis of Acute pericarditis (8ish) (Hardware Disease)

1. leukocytosis

2. neutrophilia

3. eosinopenia

4. thoracocentesis of pericardial fluid

5. back arched

6. elbows abducted

7. edema under belly, brisket, jaw

8. congestive heart failure

define edema (Hardware Disease)

swelling caused by an excess of fluid trapped in your body's tissues

diagnosis of Vagus indigestion (6ish) (Hardware Disease)

1. moderate neutrophilia

2. left shift

3. relative monocytosis

4. hypochloremia

5. hypokalemia

6. alkalosis if abomasum is distended or impacted

how to treat (8 (2 + 6)) (Hardware Disease)

1. Conservative therapy

   1. restrict walking

   2. Administer a magnet

   3. Broad spectrum antibiotics

2. Surgical treatment

   1. Rumenotomy to try to remove object

   2. Intraperitoneal lavage and antibiotics

   3. Systemic broad spectrum antibiotics

how to prevent (3) (Hardware Disease)

1. Give magnets preventively to try to hold the foreign object in the reticulum

2. Clean up environment

3. Be aware that foreign objects can arrive in delivered rations

RVT Roles (4) (Hardware Disease)

1. history

2. restraint/handling

3. admin of magnet, meds

4. assisting in surgery