VIN Topic Rounds

Are you missing out on clinical rotations because of COVID-19? The VIN Student Team has you covered with Tuesday Topic Rounds.  During the month of December, join Dr. Tony Johnson, DVM, DACVECCS for 30 minute, case-based sessions on Emergency Medicine every Tuesday at 12ET. Everyone and all levels of experience are welcome. There will be time for Q&A and discussion following. The next session is GDV Management and Stabilization on December 15, 2020 at 12 ET.

In this rounds:

• Surgical tips
• Radiographic diagnosis
• How to perform trocarisation and pre-op stabilization

NEW!!! NOW TO JOIN THE SESSION JUST LOG INTO THE VIN STUDENT CENTER AND CLICK THE GREEN BUTTON IN THE TOP RIGHT

The Veterinary Information Network (VIN) is here to help you as a vet student – especially during this worldwide pandemic. Membership is always free as a student!

VIN Topic Rounds

Are you missing out on clinical rotations because of COVID-19? The VIN Student Team has you covered with Tuesday Topic Rounds.  During the month of December, join Dr. Tony Johnson, DVM, DACVECCS for 30 minute, case-based sessions on Emergency Medicine every Tuesday at 12ET. Everyone and all levels of experience are welcome. There will be time for Q&A and discussion following. The next session is CPR Latest Guidelines on December 8, 2020 at 12 ET.

In this rounds:

• ACVECC RECOVER guidelines for CPR
• Steps in performing CPR
• Survival rates and post-arrest management

NEW!!! NOW TO JOIN THE SESSION JUST LOG INTO THE VIN STUDENT CENTER AND CLICK THE GREEN BUTTON IN THE TOP RIGHT

The Veterinary Information Network (VIN) is here to help you as a vet student – especially during this worldwide pandemic. Membership is always free as a student!

OSU CVM Responds to 2020 Wildfire Emergency

Please join us in recognizing the amazing efforts of the Oregon State University Carlson College of Veterinary Medicine during this difficult time.  They have gone above and beyond to aid wildlife that have been injured as a result of the major wildfires ravaging the western United States.

Top left: Shannah Duffy (2023) and Christie Greiner-Shelton (2022) dropping food from the pet food drive to a shelter in Eugene, OR. Top middle: Catherine Skinner (2022). Top right: Christie Greiner Shelton & Lindsey Zachary (2022). Bottom left: Shannah Duffy (2021) & Christie Greiner Shelton (2022). Bottom right: Tiffany Yee, Eilea Delgadillo, & Whitney Sia (2021).

An incredible team of people at the Oregon State University Carlson College of Veterinary Medicine have been working extremely hard to launch a veterinary wildfire response team to serve local emergency response locations at Benton County Events Center and Fairgrounds, Linn County Expo Center and Oregon State Fair and Exposition Center. Additionally, CCVM is also providing hospitalized care to large or small animals injured or ill as a result of the wildfires and evacuation endeavors. Faculty continues to be available to provide consultation related to emergency and critical care for these animals as well. More than 110 CCVM veterinarians, technicians, staff and students have volunteered in these efforts.

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Lacrosse Ball - Saving a Life

How have you gotten to use veterinary medicine outside of the classroom? Read about how Maddie Hileman, University of Illinois, saved a life!

When a client and patient are experiencing an emergency, they may find themselves at their most vulnerable state. Two years ago I was walking through a park when I noticed a panic breaking out over a dog in respiratory distress. The owner and dog had been playing fetch with a lacrosse ball, and the lacrosse ball had become completely lodged in the back of the dog’s throat (stuck behind the soft palate) and was now occluding the dog’s airway. I ran over as the dog started to turn blue and explained that I might be able to help. The dog could potentially only survive for less than a few minutes with an occluded airway, and the nearest animal hospital was over 25 minutes away. I knew then that I would have no other choice but to try to save him myself. I have seen multiple instances of a tennis ball occlusion, which can be fixed by poking a hole in the tennis ball with a blade and using the hole to reach something inside of the tennis ball to grab ahold of it before pulling it out. However, the lacrosse ball was a different situation as it is completely solid, hard, and rubber. After a few failed attempts to dislodge the ball manually with my hands, I realized we needed some sort of tool to get it out. I ran to my car to see what I could find, and I was in luck- A Swiss Army Knife! I fanned it open in order to get the corkscrew piece isolated. Acting quickly and calmly I used the corkscrew to get a good grip of the lacrosse ball before successfully dislodging it with a satisfying “POP!” noise. As the dog began taking deep recovery breaths I advised the owner to have their dog be further examined at the local small animal ER to check for signs of hypoxic damage. Although this was by far an unconventional approach, I was proud to have acted calming and quickly in order to save a life. Thinking back on this event, I realized that I wanted to dedicate myself to small and exotic animal emergency medicine.

An Incidental Finding

Adam Eggleston
University of Florida College of Veterinary Medicine

This case involves my own dog ‘Eimeria’.

She was my group’s second sophomore surgery canine which was performed in March of 2016. I was on anesthesia while two of my classmates who were in the role of surgeon and assistant performed the spay. After the routine spay, I decided to adopt the stray and named her Eimeria.

In December 2016 while getting ready for my Zoo medicine rotation, Eimeria began vomiting, urinating, defecating, and became laterally recumbent. I brought her into our ECC where she began to have hemorrhagic diarrhea. An AFAST was performed which showed a large, anechoic cystic structure in the right cranial abdomen with the right kidney not being visible. An ultrasound was performed indicating severe thickening of the gall bladder wall and a large fluid filled structure in the region of the right kidney, hydronephrosis was suspected.

One month later and I was able to watch a nephrectomy being performed on Eimeria. Her right kidney and a ureter with one of the best strangle knots I have ever seen, are currently sitting in a jar of formalin on my shelf. It turns out that Eimeria’s unknown anaphylactoid reaction was a blessing in disguise which allowed the incidental finding of severe hydronephrosis due to a ligated ureter.