Saturday, July 25, 2015

Madras Day 12 : Surgery Ward and Biotech Lab

Back to the grind today. We started our last 2 days of clinics at the vet school today. Since we were assigned to LA surgery, but they don't get started until around lunchtime, most of my group decided to go where ever they liked most. I went to surgery ward. That was slow to start out with though so I went to opthal and found a dog with periocular  alopecia. We completed a skin scraping to look for the presence of mites but saw none. The vet took a sample and expected fungal origin. I headed back to surgery and found a dog with urinary blockage and followed it to radiology. While there I saw a crazy dog with carpal hyperextension. He was 6m old and had a nutritional deficiency with Ca:P. Usually this is correctable if it is treated early but this did had this condition for 3 months and the owners just brought the dog in. They will try to correct but there is no guarantee. Luckily the dog didn't seem to be in pain and was jumping around and acting like a normal puppy. The blockage dog showed no stones and an enlarged prostate. However, some stones are radiolucent and are hard to catch on X-ray. We tried to catheterize it but was unsuccessful. I had to leave before a cystocentesis was performed, but we were told the dog would come back the next day for an ultrasound.
The afternoon lab... Oh my. The PhD student didn't know we were coming and instead of just giving us an overview of a procedure he used to extract RNA from a tissue, he performed it all. A two hour procedure. Caitlin recognized the protocol as the same she used for her PhD, and was able to explain the steps to us but otherwise he just kinda mumbled through the procedure. It was the worst lab. We went back to the hostel and took some trips out to the pharmacy and a street bakery. That night we worked on our SOAPs.
-7/20/15

Carpal Extension
Due to nutritional deficiencies

Urinary Blockage dog

Pipetting Lab

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