Hospitalization + Housing requirements Flashcards
What are 4 considerations that are important to ensure when patients are Hospitalised?
- Accomodation is appropriate for the species + their circumstances/condition
- Acoomodation is controlled, checked + appropriate for the animal’s needs
- Fixtures + contents reflect patient species, welfare + well-being of the animal
- Potential hazards to animals + persons are recognised + action is taken to reduce those risls
What is the role of the kennels?
- Designed to provide comfort + secure veterinary housing for patients, who are recovering + are hospitilised
- Wards should be intended + designed to suit the requirements of each species + individual needs of patients
- Ensure effective patient care
- Ensure efficent working for VP proffesionals
What must kennels be?
- Species specific
- Away from potential predators + threats
- Secure
- As far away from consulting rooms + reception as possible
- Designed to reduce through traffic
- Durable
- Safe
- Comfortable
- As calm + quiet an environment as feesib;y possible
- Easy to clean
- Well ventilated (controllable + adaptable)
- Well heated (controllable + adaptable)
- Ideally - soundproofed
What welfare requirements are their for patients in the VP?
- Provide a safe + secure environment
- Fear-free
- Ability to be housed with or without companion animals - if requjred
- Allow for normal behaviour patterns
- Access to:
= Constant supply of fresh water
= Adequate nutrition
= Appropriate housing - Need for suitable environment
- Species specific
- Right to be protected from:
= Suffering
= Pain
= Injury
= Disease
What types of wards can they potentially be in the VP or VH?
- Dog ward/kennels
- Cat ward/cattery
- Exotics ward
- Wildlife or Small animal/rodent ward
- Isolation ward
(species specific) - Radiotherapy or Radioiodine ward
(refferal hospital) - Recovery ward - off from theatre or in prep room
- Intensive or high dependant units
For walk in kennels, in refferal hospitals or new VPs, they may have glass doors.
What are the benefits for these?
- Easy to clean
- Sound-proof
- Write patient details straight onto them
- Easy to view/monitor patients
What are the benefit of glass door kennels?
- Same as glass walk-in kennels (Easy to clean etc)
- Tend to be larger than barred kennels
What are the pros and cons of kennels with bars?
Pros
* Well ventilated
* Secure lock mechanisims
Cons
* Not sound-proof
* Harder to clean
What types of common double kennels can be found in the VP?
Double-stack fitted kennels
Why should the top double-fitted kennels not be used as storage in the VP?
Because:
* Potential fire hazard
* Encourage infection or bacterial growth
(not effective infection control)
Where are roll-away kennels commonly used in the VP?
+
What are their benefits and disadvantages?
Where:
* Usually double-stacked
* Can be found in recovery areas + in imaging rooms, to house patients sedated for procedures
Benefits:
* Easy to transport sedated animals
* Can be brought into the wards when kennel spaces are at full capacity
* Drip stands are usually built in
* Usually has a divider in the bottom kennel, to make smaller or larger - if needed
Disadvantages:
* Can be unstable + roll away
* Risk of injury
* Not sound proof
* No temperature control
* Bars = increase infection control risk
* Not suitable for boisterous patients - when they move or shake = cause fear + anxiety for patient is housed above
* Not great for anxious patients - the divider for doors has to come off, to provide more space = noisy + inconvienient
True or False.
Feline specific wards ideally should include walk-in kennls, with shelves, built in for large breed felines + long hospitilsation stays
True
Name as many housing considerations possible for the cat ward + individual kennels as possible
And meeting all, wouild be required for silver or gold accreditation for a Cat Friendly Practice (CFP)..
- Escape proof
- Avoid harsh-lighting (dim lighting or darkened)
- Keep visual stimulus to a minimum
- Not facing other kennels = cause aggression
- Play classical music = calming
- Plug in pheromones = Feliway
- Feliway sprayed on bedding
- Can leave own carrier in kennel = comfort, familiar smells + allows hiding, stress reduction
- Hides
- Tunnels
- Familiar bedding
- Cat castle/sack bed or igloo bed
- Spacious cage with soft bedding over the majority of the kennel floor
- Avoid anything with a wet or sticky kennel base
- Food + water = kept seperate
- Regularly changed + covered litter tray
True or False.
Stress can be reduced for cats if they are give some choice + sense of control of their environment
True
In the exotic or wildlife kennel, what should be considered?
- Provision of varying sized vivariums
- Species-specfic appropriate considerations (Like more vertical height for birds etc)
- Large wildlife kennels
Incubators
* Paediatric incubator
* Exotic incubator
O2
* (Newer) Oxygen kennels
* Older model of Oxygen kennel
