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| To obtain a diagnostic blood or urine sample they must be collected when before the admin of fluids or meds? |
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| Before tx then after recheck blood after to see if the meds are working. |
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| Your giving a P IV fluids and, your checking in on the P, you notice that the area is erythematous. What does that mean? |
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| Signs of being red, inflammation and irritated; fluids are seeming out of the skin |
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| What is important when you are told to draw a coagulation panel? |
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| One perfectly drawn stick; no hemolysis |
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| Why do we use 70% isopropyl alcohol on vessels when we draw blood? |
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| Vasodilatation; a little heat help too. |
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| What position should an animal be when performing a medial saphenous venal puncture? |
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| On a diabetic P where do you tell owners to monitor the glucose levels? Where are they going to get it from. |
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| Ear is the easiest w/ a human glucometer |
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| I need to do a blood gas what vessels should you use? |
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| Tell me what you need to do to perform a thoracocentesis? |
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| Scrub clippers catheters; issues too much fluid, b/t 7&8 rib; create a pneumothorax |
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| You need a urine sample for culture, what is the best way? |
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| Cystocentesis and urinary catheterization |
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| Tell me what you need to do to perform an abdominocentesis? |
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| Scrub, clippers, sterile fliud in acytesis or fluid in abs; if cat and blocked, see if bladder is ruptured and peritonitis |
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| Why do we perform a peritoneal lavage? |
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| Collecting fluid for lab analysis |
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| What are common sites for arthrocentesis? |
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| Any joint but the most common is the stifle |
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| What bones would we use for a bone marrow aspiration? |
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| Scapula, femur, humorous, but most common is the ilium |
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| Do animals have to be sedated for arthrocenthesi? |
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| Should be but don’t have to be; would they be at risk, pain meds |
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| What size needle should you use for fine needle aspirate? |
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| Depends on size of animals; 18 most common, 16 large animals |
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| What is the advantage peripheral cath over jugular is what? |
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| What should be injected in to a cath after chemo to keep it patent or not clot? |
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| T/F; Herbal meds they are all safe; they don’t cause any toxicity? |
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| T/F; Are herbal meds FDA approved? |
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| What is the drug the formula for herbal meds called? |
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| T/F; Can herbal meds interact with other meds? |
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| What type of lab test can be used to determine dehydration status of a P? |
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| When ventilated a 50# dog, CPR, how many breaths per min? |
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| Chest compression is what ratio? |
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| Drawn blood into an Astrid citrate dextrose (ACD) bottle how long can be stored for? |
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| Animals with poor blood flow and impaired oxygen is suffering from what condition? |
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| Shock CIRCULATORY FAILURE |
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| Name the types of colloids? |
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| What would be signs of excessive fluid admin? |
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| Swelling or weight gain, dyspnea, tachypnea |
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| You calcium oxalate crystals in the urine, what is that indicative of? |
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| Ate anti freeze; ethylene glycol |
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| You have a cat that is obstructed with lots of potassium in blood what type of fluid you need to |
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| Sodium chorlium; saline half will take longer |
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| You have a wound what phase is it in when there is an influx monocytes and macrophages? |
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| You have a wound that is severely contaminated after granulation tissue has developed? |
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| You need to put a sling on a dog to prevent joint stiffness in hyperextension after a distal femoral fracture repair? |
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| You have a topical insecticide that is used for fleas on dogs. Cats are extremely sensitive to this chemical and if you put this on a kitty they could die? seizures, tremors and death |
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| Permitherin newer form of pyrethrins |
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| What has a dog eatin that results in kidney failure when in quantities an amount can also cause renal failure. So any amount is particularly dangerous; what is it? |
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| Chewing on this plant can cause calcium oxalate crystals that can be expelled into mouth resulting in oral irritation and intense burning of the mouth, lips and tongue, excessive drooling and difficulty swallowing. What is it? |
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| Iv catheters can be used to safely admin drugs that can damage tissues if injected para-vascularly. What medical term is used to describe these drugs? |
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| Knee cap leaves its trochlear grove in either medial and lateral trajectory causing pain and lameness in the rear limbs. What is it? |
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| The most common hematopoietic tumor of the dog w/o tx most dogs die w/in 4-6 wks of diagnosis the proper tx of survival time may approach 1 yr? |
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| This is transmitted thru urine of affected animals, is zoonotic, causes acute renal failure if left untx and they usually yellow, but don't have to? |
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| This is an accelerated RBC destructin that occurs due to presence of antibodies that attach to their membranes. These RBC are then removed from circulation resulting in anemia? |
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| Immune-Mediated Hemolytic Anemia |
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| Ulcerative keratitis is the main sign of this viral dz. Other clinical signs of this include fever, serious ocular/nasal discharge and acute arthritis in kitties and conjunctivitis? |
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| This primarily with deep chested dogs associated w/ improper diet and exercise routines. Clinical signs include nonproductive retching hypersalivation, abdominal distention and collapse? |
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| Gastric Dilation w/ Volvulus |
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| This disease is caused by a soil fungus found in semi-arid regions. Clinical signs may not appear for weeks to years after the exposure of the fungal spores? |
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| Valley fever (coccidioidomycosis) |
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| This dz can either be congenital or inherited results in chronic regeneration of undigested food, weight loss and pneumonia? |
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| This is transmitted by mosquitoes this parasitic dz affects dogs differently then cats. Clinical signs in dogs include hemoptysis and R-sided heart failure. In cats may experience anorexia, coughing or sudden death? |
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| This dz involves blood bypassing the liver causing toxins in the GI tract to be delivered throughout the body resulting hepatic encephalopathy? |
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| This dz occurs when access glucocorticoids are produced by the adrenal glands. Clinical signs include muscle weakness, bilateral alopecia and obesity? |
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| Cushing's disease (Hyperadrenocorticism) |
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| Blood in the urine/common w/ bladder stones |
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| Elevated kidney value in the lab work (high BUN/creatinine) |
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| A common endocrine disorder in cats has an excess of T3 and T4? |
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| The exposure to feline corona virus is a precursor to this dz. It occurs in wet and dry forms that can easily be misdx. There is no definitive test for this dz. |
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| Feline Infectious Peritonitis |
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| This dz involves a deficiency in the antidiuretic hormone. Resulting in pu/pd? |
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| This is a viral neurological dz of warm blooded animals that is spread thru the saliva of an infected animal. Is characterized by 3 stages all of which an infected animal will experience less then one week? |
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| This disorder causes spontaneous clots to form in the vessels. After all the clotting factors are used up the animal bleeds out? |
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| Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation |
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| This is a typically a seasonal condition this clinical syndrome involves allergy w/ a heredity predisposition. The most common clinical sign is peritious? |
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| Occurring primarily in older dogs this dz involves a loss of function of both the lacrimal glands |
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| Keratoconjuctivitis Sicca |
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| This is a malignant tumor of the poorly differentiated cells that metastasize to cause hematologic anemia to bleed internally? |
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| This viral dz is typically observed in dogs 3-6 months of age transmitting thru aerosolization of body secretions. Results in clonus seizures muscle twitching, ataxia, fever nasal/ocular discharge? |
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| What is in a lavender top tube |
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| Ethylene diamine tetra acetic Acid |
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| What is in a green top tube |
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| What is in a baby blue top tube |
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| This dz is a result of one or both eyes to sag making the conjunctiva more exposed? |
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| What breeds are predisposed to entropion? |
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| Labs, Chow Chows and Samoyeds |
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| This dz is a result of one or both eyes to roll inward against the cornea? |
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| What breeds carry a natural characteristic of Ectropion? |
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| Hounds, spaniels, and brachycephalic |
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| inflammation of the anterior chamber containing the iris, ciliary body and choroid. |
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| Hair loss resulting in patches or complete loss |
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| Body weight in kg X 50ml/kg/day |
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| % of dehydration X 10ml X kgs = 24hrs of fluid |
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| total fluid replacement equation |
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| 16oz divide by the # of oz |
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| yellow discoloration of the skin |
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| an abnormal increase in the number of normal cells that are in normal arrangement in a tissue |
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| An normally large amount of fluid intracellular tissue spaces |
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| general bodily discomfort |
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