After I was rounded, I helped with the 12 o’clock treatments. First, I walked Nikki, a spayed female husky. She needed a sling to walk because she couldn’t use her back legs. She had a known abdominal mass and came in because she was down. After I walked her, I set her fluids back up.
Then, Remy was transferred to us from NEVOG. Remy is a 2 year old neutered male golden mix. He has cancer, and they realized he was also hyperkalemic so they brought Remy to us to treat before they did more for the cancer. We took his blood pressure, which was 150, placed an IV catheter and set up fluids at 120 ml/hr. Then I figured out how much Pepcid, or famotidine to give; which was 1.6ml (10mg/ml and he was to get 16mg).
Fuzzy, a 3 year old DLH spayed female was already in hospital and she was blocked. We ran a big three on her; blood pressure was 158, PCV 36% and total solids were 5.8. To place an IV catheter in her we had to muzzle her and wrap her in a towel. Then we helped Christy, one of the doctors, to unblock her.
We knocked her down with Propofol and hooked her up to some fluids. Then, we shaved from the bottom of her tail to the top of her legs about 3 inches wide and scrubbed the area with chlorihex and alcohol. Then, Christy gloved sterilely and used a urinary catheter to attempt to unblock Fuzzy. She had me use a 60 cc syringe filled with saline attached to the end of the catheter to help unblock her. Once she hit a spot that was stuck, she had me push through until she could move. Once she thought she was in the bladder, she had me pull back to see if we were in, which we were. Once she was in the bladder, she made two stay stitches and tacked the catheter in and radiographs were taken to check the placement of the catheter. It was wrapped around itself a few times, so Christy had to move it back a bit and the second time it was fine. Then it was taped to the tail and attached to a urine collection bag and we took her off the anesthesia and she went back in her cage and we checked on her every few minutes.
I then held Nikki for a saphenous blood draw.
Jake, a DLH had his chest tapped at 2pm with Internal Medicine. He came back because his lungs had filled up again and he was open mouth breathing. We tapped him again since internal medicine had left. We took 100 cc of air off the right and 70 cc of air off the left which was the same as this afternoon. We put him in an incubator to keep him warm since his temperature was down. One of the doctors that was on talked to the owners about euthanasia and they decided to put him down and they took the body home.
Then I entered Fuzzy’s blood work into the computer.
Then we rounded with the surgery patients and the overnight techs. Then I started on the 8 o’clock treatments.
First was Sunny, a 10 year old spayed female yellow lab mix who had a right front leg amputation. I walked her and performed a TPR which was temp = 100.2, pulse=100 and respirations=40.
Next I took out Beezly, a 3 year old male neutered bichon who had a left hind suture. I took him out for a walk and then performed a TPR which was temp=99.5; pulse= 130 and respirations= 80. Then I offered food and water and iced his incision.
Then, Remy was transferred to us from NEVOG. Remy is a 2 year old neutered male golden mix. He has cancer, and they realized he was also hyperkalemic so they brought Remy to us to treat before they did more for the cancer. We took his blood pressure, which was 150, placed an IV catheter and set up fluids at 120 ml/hr. Then I figured out how much Pepcid, or famotidine to give; which was 1.6ml (10mg/ml and he was to get 16mg).
Fuzzy, a 3 year old DLH spayed female was already in hospital and she was blocked. We ran a big three on her; blood pressure was 158, PCV 36% and total solids were 5.8. To place an IV catheter in her we had to muzzle her and wrap her in a towel. Then we helped Christy, one of the doctors, to unblock her.
We knocked her down with Propofol and hooked her up to some fluids. Then, we shaved from the bottom of her tail to the top of her legs about 3 inches wide and scrubbed the area with chlorihex and alcohol. Then, Christy gloved sterilely and used a urinary catheter to attempt to unblock Fuzzy. She had me use a 60 cc syringe filled with saline attached to the end of the catheter to help unblock her. Once she hit a spot that was stuck, she had me push through until she could move. Once she thought she was in the bladder, she had me pull back to see if we were in, which we were. Once she was in the bladder, she made two stay stitches and tacked the catheter in and radiographs were taken to check the placement of the catheter. It was wrapped around itself a few times, so Christy had to move it back a bit and the second time it was fine. Then it was taped to the tail and attached to a urine collection bag and we took her off the anesthesia and she went back in her cage and we checked on her every few minutes.
I then held Nikki for a saphenous blood draw.
Jake, a DLH had his chest tapped at 2pm with Internal Medicine. He came back because his lungs had filled up again and he was open mouth breathing. We tapped him again since internal medicine had left. We took 100 cc of air off the right and 70 cc of air off the left which was the same as this afternoon. We put him in an incubator to keep him warm since his temperature was down. One of the doctors that was on talked to the owners about euthanasia and they decided to put him down and they took the body home.
Then I entered Fuzzy’s blood work into the computer.
Then we rounded with the surgery patients and the overnight techs. Then I started on the 8 o’clock treatments.
First was Sunny, a 10 year old spayed female yellow lab mix who had a right front leg amputation. I walked her and performed a TPR which was temp = 100.2, pulse=100 and respirations=40.
Next I took out Beezly, a 3 year old male neutered bichon who had a left hind suture. I took him out for a walk and then performed a TPR which was temp=99.5; pulse= 130 and respirations= 80. Then I offered food and water and iced his incision.
