It's been quite hot here in Oklahoma this week! With temperatures in the triple digits, I have never been more grateful for air conditioning!
After our busy week of colics last week, this week seemed pretty quiet. We only had a handful of emergencies including a couple colics and a laceration, only two that needed to go to surgery though.
Throughout the week we had pretty routine cases, including many lameness exams, pre purchases, MRIs, EPM work ups, joint injections and arthroscopies.
Some of the more interesting cases were one of the MRIs was of the brain so it was pretty cool to read that report. The horse had been having episodes of seizures and unpredictable behavior, so with a history of a possible head injury, they decided to see if there was any indication of brain damage. I never had a chance to see the final report, but the preliminary findings didn't show any indication of injury.
We also saw several horses this week for patellar ligament splitting, where small incisions are made into the ligament to cause thickening and scaring down of the ligament to help with horses who have problems with locking their stifles. It's a pretty quick standing procedure.
Another case we saw was a mare with a sequestrum on her pelvis. Dr Lamb was able to remove this standing and it was a pretty cool procedure to watch. It was a very large sequestrum!
Another procedure I've never seen before is cutting the deep digital flexor tendon. This is done to help reduce rotation of p3 to keep the horse more comfortable. Although not an ideal situation, this mare was expected to make a good recovery to hang out in a pasture for her retirement years.
For a good way to end the week, the zoo brought a gorilla down for an MRI on Friday.
That's it for now! Hopefully by next update it will have cooled off a bit here!
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