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| Question | Answer |
| What volume of fluid is normal from a nasogastric reflux? | 1-2l |
| How should you pass a nasogastric tube? | Ventromedially |
| How much of the small intestine can be safely resected? | 60% |
| What sort of horses are strangulating pedunculated lipoma common on? | Fat, old, gelding ponies |
| What does the rectal finding suggest? Bands of distended colon run transversely across pelvic inlet | Right dorsal displacement of the large colon |
| What parasite predisposes to caecal intussuception? | Anoplocephla |
| What sort of horses are at risk of large colon volvulus? | Larger horses and broodmare 4 months either side of foaling |
| What sort of horses are at risk of nephrosplenic entrapment? | 4-8yo performance horses |
| What rectal findings would you expect with nephrosplenic entrapment? | spleen displaced ventromedially, cannot palpate nephrosplenic space, distended colon |
| What is immediate first aid care of rectal tears? | Packing, antibiotics, and NSAIDs |
| How should you treat endotoxaemia? | IVFT, flunixin, polymixin B, +/- plasma |
| How would you treat anoplocephla? | Praziquantel |
| What GI prasite lays eggs around the anus causing anal pruritus, and how would you treat it? | Oxyuris equi - Ivermectin |
| Which worms are of risk to young foals? | Strongyles (e.g. strongyloides westeri) and ascardis (e.g. parascaris equorum) |
| How would you treat adult v encysted cyathostomes? | Adult = ivermectin Encysted = moxidectin |
| In what sort of horse is lawsonia intracellularis predisposed? | 4-6mo weaning foals |
| What blood changes does lawsonia intracellularis cause? | hypoalbuminaemia, hyperfibroginaemia, anaemia |
| How would you treat lawsonia intracellularis? | doxycycline |
| Which Ps are abnormal for spasmodic colic? | NOne |
| Which Ps are abnormal for gas colic? | (per) Rectal exam |
| How would you treat gas colic? | Buscopan, stomach tube, gentle exercuse |
| How would you treat spasmodic colic? | buscopan, NSAIDs, starve |
| How would you treat a pelvic flexure impaction? | overhydrate ingesta, magnesium sulphate, pass a tube, analgesia |
| What Ps are abnormal in ileal impaction? | PCV and Pulse (increased) --> surgical |
| How to treat sand impaction? | Psyllium |
| How to treat oesophageal obstruction (choke)? | Sedate, head down, lavage obstruction out |
| What age of horses does grass sickness usually affect? | 3-5yo |
| What sort of horses are predisposed to equine gastric ulcer syndrome? | racehorses in training |
| What causes squamous gastric ulcers? | acid exposure |
| How do you treat equine gastric ulcer syndrome? | omeprazole, histamine agonist, antacids, no long periods without food |
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