Week 8

Hello again! We never slow down is the official theme at Rood and Riddle! Surgery has stayed busy with some great learning experiences! It is weaning time in Kentucky which unfortunately results in many lacerations and sadly fractures. A foal was presented at the clinic to fix a complete calcaneus fracture. The picture to the right is of the fracture prepped and ready to go in surgery before Dr. Ruggles fixed it. You can see the severe angle and swelling of the leg.












Dr. Ruggle place 2 plates to fix the fracture and allow the foal a chance to grow normally.

 

My favorite thing will always be colic surgeries! I was able to help out with some late night colic surgeries where one horse had a small intestinal torsion. 

 Pictured above is about 10 feet of necrotic small intestine that needed to be resected!

Finally there was another Ovariectomy performed on a mare with a tumor. Unlike the surgery that was performed earlier in the summer where the horse was not placed under general anesthesia, this mare was placed under general anesthesia and placed dorsally on a table and the ovary was removed. It was really interesting to the see the same surgery performed in 2 drastically different techniques. If there is one thing I have learned it is to keep an open mind and learn as many techniques as possible! 

  Ovary after it was removed! 

 

On that note, I would like to end this week with two of the amazing hard working interns at RREH! Dr. Lauren Mundy and Dr. Liz Anderson! They are flushing a septic joint on a foal! Working hard day and night! 

Thanks everyone for reading!!