I just finished (well by 8am tomorrow morning I will be finished) my equine surgery/medicine rotation. As many of you know I am not aspiring at all to become the next great equine veterinarian, but I did enjoy this rotation. It was fun (and a little scary at times) to work with such large powerful creatures. The two pictures below are from a colic surgery I assisted with last week. It was a mare that come in for a severe colonic impaction. You can't really see that this is a horse as she is covered in a sterile drape, but that is her colon laying out on the table being flushed with sterile saline. We ended up pulling out about 80 lbs of dry manure.
This last picture is a horse who had melting corneal ulcer (among other eye problems). When surgery is done on a horse it is knocked down (chemically) and then picked up with a winch of sorts. Then the operating table is moved under them and they are lowered down. The table is then pushed into the OR. Once they are down with surgery they are placed in a heavily padded recovery room as they can wake up in a very violent manner.
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Thanks for the play-by-play on this, James. Most of us never get in an operating room to see what goes on. Keep up the good work!
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