We decided we were going to do the two other cats today so Maura and I decided to do the blood work and start getting ready while the students were giving their presentations. At first, we got Lynx and Venus out and got blood from both of them. Then we realized that Maura and fasted the wrong male cat, and we really needed Galaxy. So we put Lynx back and I took Galaxy’s food and water away. Dr. Young decided that since it would be awhile before the surgery, and since he wouldn’t be under anesthesia for that long that it would be okay if we still did him today.
Then we helped with the rest of the presentations which went great.
Then there was some confusion between myself, Maura, Dr. Young and Kim. Basically, we thought that since we were not doing Galaxy until later since he had eaten this morning, that we were just doing both after the second lab instead of the castration between the labs like we had originally planned. So we decided that Dr. Young should look at the few animals on the medical board while we had some time. Come to find out, Dr. Young wanted us to switch the surgeries, and do the spay between classes and the castration after class. But he looked at the animals on the medical board anyway, and decided we should do Galaxy’s castration before the second lab got there. Maura and I finished getting him ready for surgery and then we used the induction chamber to knock him down. Once he was sedate enough, we took him out of the box and placed a mask on him and got ready to intubate. I held him while Maura intubated. Then Dr. Young had me open glove and help him with the castration. After he was done, Kim and I stayed with him until he woke up.
The second lab came in half way through this, since it took Galaxy a long time to go down. They just watched while we finished. Next they did their presentations and Maura and I set up for Venus’s spay. Then when the students were done, we did the spay. I gave the premedication of butorphanol, acepromizine, and glycopyrrolate. Then when she was sedate, I placed a 22gauge catheter in her left cephalic vein. Maura gave her induction drugs of ketamine and diazepam. Then I intubated her after placing lidocaine on the laryngeal folds. At first, I was in her stomach, but then I went down to a smaller tube, a 3.0mm, and that went in much better. Once I inflated the cuff and she was under anesthesia, Kim shaved and scrubbed her while I opened the surgical pack and scalpel blade and suture material for Dr. Young. Then she was moved into surgery and I acted as one of the anesthetists taking down her vitals and Maura, Kim and I worked as a great team. We were done from start to finish in about an hour and then we stayed to recover her. Once she was extubated, I gave her a dose of buprenorphine IM. Then we had to clean up all the instruments and repack everything, as well as clean up the surgery suite and the lab room. Dr. Young had to go to class, so it took us a while to clean up. Dr. Young is coming to give the pain medication to both cats tonight and tomorrow morning.
Then we helped with the rest of the presentations which went great.
Then there was some confusion between myself, Maura, Dr. Young and Kim. Basically, we thought that since we were not doing Galaxy until later since he had eaten this morning, that we were just doing both after the second lab instead of the castration between the labs like we had originally planned. So we decided that Dr. Young should look at the few animals on the medical board while we had some time. Come to find out, Dr. Young wanted us to switch the surgeries, and do the spay between classes and the castration after class. But he looked at the animals on the medical board anyway, and decided we should do Galaxy’s castration before the second lab got there. Maura and I finished getting him ready for surgery and then we used the induction chamber to knock him down. Once he was sedate enough, we took him out of the box and placed a mask on him and got ready to intubate. I held him while Maura intubated. Then Dr. Young had me open glove and help him with the castration. After he was done, Kim and I stayed with him until he woke up.
The second lab came in half way through this, since it took Galaxy a long time to go down. They just watched while we finished. Next they did their presentations and Maura and I set up for Venus’s spay. Then when the students were done, we did the spay. I gave the premedication of butorphanol, acepromizine, and glycopyrrolate. Then when she was sedate, I placed a 22gauge catheter in her left cephalic vein. Maura gave her induction drugs of ketamine and diazepam. Then I intubated her after placing lidocaine on the laryngeal folds. At first, I was in her stomach, but then I went down to a smaller tube, a 3.0mm, and that went in much better. Once I inflated the cuff and she was under anesthesia, Kim shaved and scrubbed her while I opened the surgical pack and scalpel blade and suture material for Dr. Young. Then she was moved into surgery and I acted as one of the anesthetists taking down her vitals and Maura, Kim and I worked as a great team. We were done from start to finish in about an hour and then we stayed to recover her. Once she was extubated, I gave her a dose of buprenorphine IM. Then we had to clean up all the instruments and repack everything, as well as clean up the surgery suite and the lab room. Dr. Young had to go to class, so it took us a while to clean up. Dr. Young is coming to give the pain medication to both cats tonight and tomorrow morning.
