When I arrived in the morning, there was an emergency on its way in. Bridget the spayed female airedale came in, in lateral recumbency. According to her owners, she had been vomiting for a day, then stopped for two days, and had been vomiting for the past 36 hours along with liquid black diarrhea. Her temperature was 104◦; blood glucose (BG) was 29. We placed a catheter and gave her fluids and a bolus of fluids and dextrose. Within an hour, nothing had changed; she was still not doing anything other then laying down. We checked her BG again which 56, was better then before, but still not great. I helped Kerri move Bridget into the X-Ray room, where she took a lateral view of her abdomen to make sure she was not obstructed or any tumors. There was nothing significant on the radiographs
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While waiting for the results of some blood work I gave 1 cc of Penicillin SQ to two kittens that had been declawed two days before. I also gave a boarding cat, Snickers, his Phenobarbital. Then I made sure the four boarding cats had water and food and a clean litter box. There were no rabbits boarding.
Then I held a lhasa apso for anal gland expression and then I cleaned his eyes.
Someone brought in a baby squirrel for one of the other technicians Linda, who takes in abandoned baby wildlife and tries to rehabilitate them. She was not working today, so we took care of the squirrel until she could come pick it up. I fed him 2 ccs of oral dextrose. His eyes and ears were still closed, but otherwise he seemed to be doing okay.
The blood work came back on Bridget, to show us that her BUN and creatinine were a little high, telling us that something is wrong with her kidneys. However, according to Dr. Hartman, she has always had elevated levels, so she didn’t think that was the problem.
Next, I vaccinated a shih-tzu for kennel cough intranasally.
Then I ran and read a fecal on a DSH black cat, Abra. It was negative.
Claire the golden retriever came in for a check ears, the swab’s came out as yeast, so I cleaned her ears.
Cosmo, another golden retriever came in for a bath and Sabrina needed help doing a nail trim, he was being a bit nippy, so I cut his nails.
I helped Kerri take a right lateral and a DV chest radiograph on Cinder, the black lab. This was a recheck radiograph to see if anything had changed in his lungs, which it hadn’t. I developed the films (see procedures).
Sabrina and I then took another lateral and VD abdominal radiograph on Bridget that were a little more cranial then the previous views, and still nothing significant was seen. I developed this as well.
Sara the DSH cat came in for whole body radiographs. Kerri and I did these and I developed them. We noticed there was an artifact on one of the cassettes so I cleaned both of the large plates. I went back into the dark room and put the films from the cassettes back into the film drawer so I could turn the lights back on. Then I used screen cleaner and some gauze to clean each side of both cassettes and let them air dry. After about half an hour I went back into the dark room and put film back into the cassettes and was done.
The last thing I did before I left was draw 3 cc’s of blood from Cody a labradoodle for an in-house CBC and chemistry profile.
As I left, they gave Bridget a dose of sedative to keep her comfortable until her owners could come and be with her to be euthanized.
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While waiting for the results of some blood work I gave 1 cc of Penicillin SQ to two kittens that had been declawed two days before. I also gave a boarding cat, Snickers, his Phenobarbital. Then I made sure the four boarding cats had water and food and a clean litter box. There were no rabbits boarding.
Then I held a lhasa apso for anal gland expression and then I cleaned his eyes.
Someone brought in a baby squirrel for one of the other technicians Linda, who takes in abandoned baby wildlife and tries to rehabilitate them. She was not working today, so we took care of the squirrel until she could come pick it up. I fed him 2 ccs of oral dextrose. His eyes and ears were still closed, but otherwise he seemed to be doing okay.
The blood work came back on Bridget, to show us that her BUN and creatinine were a little high, telling us that something is wrong with her kidneys. However, according to Dr. Hartman, she has always had elevated levels, so she didn’t think that was the problem.
Next, I vaccinated a shih-tzu for kennel cough intranasally.
Then I ran and read a fecal on a DSH black cat, Abra. It was negative.
Claire the golden retriever came in for a check ears, the swab’s came out as yeast, so I cleaned her ears.
Cosmo, another golden retriever came in for a bath and Sabrina needed help doing a nail trim, he was being a bit nippy, so I cut his nails.
I helped Kerri take a right lateral and a DV chest radiograph on Cinder, the black lab. This was a recheck radiograph to see if anything had changed in his lungs, which it hadn’t. I developed the films (see procedures).
Sabrina and I then took another lateral and VD abdominal radiograph on Bridget that were a little more cranial then the previous views, and still nothing significant was seen. I developed this as well.
Sara the DSH cat came in for whole body radiographs. Kerri and I did these and I developed them. We noticed there was an artifact on one of the cassettes so I cleaned both of the large plates. I went back into the dark room and put the films from the cassettes back into the film drawer so I could turn the lights back on. Then I used screen cleaner and some gauze to clean each side of both cassettes and let them air dry. After about half an hour I went back into the dark room and put film back into the cassettes and was done.
The last thing I did before I left was draw 3 cc’s of blood from Cody a labradoodle for an in-house CBC and chemistry profile.
As I left, they gave Bridget a dose of sedative to keep her comfortable until her owners could come and be with her to be euthanized.
