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Summer 2011 clinical externship at Alvarado Veterinary Clinic, Texas PART 4

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I am going to start with an extremely rare in a vet's practise event which is c-section in a pig! How lucky I was to be part of the team that time

Here Sandy is preparing a sow for a surgery, as she has been with dystocia for a quite long time-everything had do be performed fast.


Dr Halvorson with Dr Calvert are starting an incision of the abdominal wall





Here you can see the uter

After taking out every piglet I was taking care of them while the Vets were suturing
The piglets were presenting some nervious symptoms as a result of ketamine 



After surgery the suture was almost invisible, great job!
Here babies of another sow



In Texas a lot of people kept farm animals as their pets so they prefered to spend some more and have their surgery being done in a pain-less cosmetic way.
For instance dehorning or castration...




Here a billy goat receiving premedication

Ready for a surgery


We started with a dehorning



Then we performed a castration





Another unusual pacient to be castrated :)







It became fashionable to own  lamas but unfortunately the climate of an extremely hot and dry west was a dangerous environment for these animals that caused many of them suffer from heat strokes.







Here with doctor Halvorson, we went for a call where a lama was not getting up for 5 days. After giving her a complete physical exam, with nervous system examination there was no chance for recuperation,eventually we decided to euthanize her.

On the same property there were a lot of donkeys minuatures. I was even offered to keep one but how could I take it back home?:)























 Here with a young raccoon that was found... a lot of people try to keep them while they are babies because they are cute and don't realize that these are real wild animals. Once they present signs of their nature they are kicked out and many times disable to survive. It's also good to remember their role they play in transmitting rabbies.








Here with Stephanie, a great vet tech and friend!

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Summer 2011 clinical externship at Alvarado Veterinary Clinic, Texas PART 3

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 Some part of my externship I dedicate to small animals, here a couple of cases

This chihuahua met on the walk a passing by donkey and decided to mess up with it, eventually recieved a kick...

...and the eyeball had to be removed.

Don't mess up with a donkey!:)
Seeing shot animals was not a rare event.
Left forelimb at palmar level and right hind one at hip region were affected. 


Intestinal impactation is a quite common emergency. You never know what you can find inside your animal's bowel...


Cesarian section was one of the most frecuently performed emergencies, almost always there were Yorkshire terriers.




The newborn puppies in their first days of life are submitted some procedures, according to breed.
For instance tail docking.

These are puppies I tried to safe from an euthanasia, when a pit bull bitch in an advanced gestation was brought to be spayed. About 2 weeks were missing for them to develope completely but because of my lack of experience I insisted on keeping them alive.

They were 11 in total and we fed each of them every hour. 


I spent about a week without sleeping but it all made no sense as they were too premature to survive. They were becoming more deshidrated every day eventhough were fed, finally they didn't make it. I got strongly convinced that sometimes it's really better to euthanize an animal before it's born.


Another interesting case- Dirofilaria immitis. This patient was found with signs of cardiac and respiratory insuficiency. After the diagnose was euthanised due to its age and advanced symptoms. After performing a quick autopsy, this was found in a right ventricule. 





This dog was found with a cat's nail sticked into his eye. Fortunately was easily removed.




Here I was let to perform an oto hematomy surgery. 








 A bit nasty but espectacular Notoedres cati infection in a stray cat. After 2-weeks treatment consisting ivermectine a big clinical improvoment was noted.






As the last one I am presenting you the most interesting one- Fragile skin syndrome in cat. When this cat was presented to our hospital, at the time of restraining it for blood sampling, the skin on the dorsal neck tore, leaving this flap of skin.







And here some of my work collegues :)






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