Today was a make up lab for the Thursday afternoon lab when we had to cancel because the USDA came. They started their dentals and we used Krypton and Leo. My group had Leo. Everything was going great, until we tried to place the catheter. The clinical labs have been practicing blood draws and both of his front legs had been used a lot. One of the students tried to place the catheter twice, and could not get it, they would hit the vein, but the catheter would not feed through. Two tries is the limit, so then I attempted to place one, and again, the catheter would not feed. So then Maura tried, and the same thing happened. Now it was Dr. Young’s turn. He too could not get the catheter to feed in a cephalic vein, so we went to a saphenous and it went right in. The only thing that this changed was that it was a little harder to move him because we needed to be careful it would not come out. Then the students did their dental and it went very well.
We graded them, and then we saw that our new dental machine had arrived. Maura and I started to try to put it together, but we needed a wrench to take it out of the box, and we did not have one.