CA Boards Flashcards by Lauren Munchel

Time frame PE needs to be done before sx

12 hours

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Puppy w/ painful metaphyseal area on multiple joints

HOD

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Appearance of eye after successful retrobulbar 4-point block

exophthalmic, mydriatic

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Cranial nerves for strabismus

3,4,6

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Minimum time to keep a dog in freezer after owner euthanizes but does not specify what to do w/ remains

14 days

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Which do you not do to diagnose coccidiomycosis?

a) blood smear
b) lung aspirate
c) serum antigen antibody

a) blood smear

has low sensitivity

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Treatment for tooth fracture in dog invovling the enamel but not exposing the pulp cavity

Smooth sharp edges of fracture

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Healthy 4 month old, obese guinea pig is pregnant. What do you warn owner about?

Pregnancy toxemia

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Horse has a history of mild colic episodes that respond to medical therapy, but are getting progressively more frequent and severe. There is no improvement with antiparasitics and change of feed or exercise. What is the next step?

abdominal ultrasound

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Foal brought for elective castration, T 102.5, P 40, R 48. What do you do?

Do not perform surgery - foal is febrile and tachypneic.

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Cat presented for stiffeness and lameness in all 4 limbs. On PE, all limbs have decreased ROM. Rads show vertebral spondlosis and exostosis around multiple joints. Owner feeds home cooked diet of exclusively liver. Diagnosis?

Vit A toxicosis

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Cow has bilateral corneal opacity with increased lacrimation and blepharospasm. There is a 4mm of corneal vascularization on one eye. Fluroscein stain reveals 3mm of uptake in one eye and 10mm of uptake in the other. What is the next step?

Digitally palpate around the nictitating membranes for plant awns.

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A 5yo intact male cat with severe stomatitis. Diagnosis?

FIV

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An 8yo boxer with a one month history of coughing. Heart rate is increased and irregular. The dog has pulse deficits, mucus membranes are pink and CRT is 1.5 sec. What is the most likely diagnosis?

A fib

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How do you identify a cow that is 55 days pregnant?

Membrane slip

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There’s a herd of 50 Suffolk sheep, with three ewes tha that have some incoordination and tremors. Some are thin and weak, they have a regular de-worming program every 3 months. Diagnosis?

Scrapie.

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What organ is affected by mushroom toxicity?

Liver

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Cow has exopthalmos. What is your diagnosis?

lymphoma - euthanize

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Which of these drug is excreted in urine?

ketamine

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What in a cow is caused by reduced vagal tone?

ruminal stasis

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What causes young growing pigs to have milk spots in liver and pneumonia?

ascaris suum

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How is EBA spread?

argasid tick - Ornithodoros coriaceus

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Dog with interdigitial draining tract, what do you do first?

surgical explore

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Which one doesn’t cause occult heartworm?

Circulating microflaria

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False positive on coggins?

Foal born to EIA positive mare

Sneezing four month old kitten, what should you know about this kitten?

Vaccine history, adoption site, clinical progression

Dog comes in shock - normally on steroids. Addisonian crisis?

IV dex and IVF

Ultrasound a dog, liver is diffusely hyperechoic, big moderate elevations in ALP and ALT, gallbladder is normal. What's the cause?

Steroid hepatopathy

Horse with 1cm, nonpruritic nodules on back

Callagenolytic granulomas

Iguana with metabolic bone disease, why don't you give calcitonin? What lab abnormalitiy would discourage giving calcitonin?

hypocalcemic, need to give Ca as well

How do you stop cocidia in broiler chickens?

Antiprotozoal frequently

Cat has miliary lesions on neck, dorsal lumbar region

Fleas

Salmon poisoning - two diagnostics what do you do each of those for?

LN for neorickettsia - intracytoplasmic rikketial organisms demonstrated by Romanowsky staining on LN. Fecal smear of eggs.

Fractured enamel, root isn't exposed, what do you do?

Smooth edges

In cats, why should they get anesthetized for dental cleanings?

subgingival stuff can't be reached if awake

What is good at home dental care for cats?

wiping with gauze

Which is reportable?

Equine vesicular stomatitis

Which species is not susceptible to foot and mouth disease?

Horses

FIV in a young cat?

Retest at 6 mons of age

Predispose to COPD horse?

closed born stall

Suffolk sheep with anemia, hemoglobinuria, hematuria

Copper toxicity

Foothill of sierra nevada, cows died. All cows affected. Some were ataxic, some recumbent. They had oral, esophageal and duodenal ulcers. Elevated BUN and pericaridal fluid.

Cockleburr

Ate something with cardio effects

Cottonseed, gosspol | Yew, foxglove, azalea, oleander, avocado, lily of the valley

What do you do with a horse diagnosed with equine viral arteritis

Report in 30 days.

How long do you have to report that someone is stealing drug prescription pads. W/ CURES system

1 day

Minimum age for rabies vaccine

3 months

Sheep with pregnancy toxemia. Where just moved to a new pasture. What should you do?

supplement the ones that are not as severe with glucose and high energy feed, induce parturition in those that are critical

Pruritic debris in ears of a 9mon old cat with dark brown debris. What diagnostics?

Cytology for ectoparasites (ear mites - treat w/ selemctin/revolution)

Horse ran through a fence with thoracic puncture wound and decreased lung sounds dorsally

perform thoracocentesis/tube thoracostomy

Ocular antibiotic for feline chlamydia

Tetracycline (ideally doxycyline)

Horse having foals with OCD, what do supplement

Copper

Dog with CNS signs and hematuria, isosthenuria and glucosuria

Ethylene glycol

What causes a vagally induced bradycardia

brachycephalic, pneumonia, collapsing trachea, athleticism

Atropine response tests corrects what

Vagally induced bradycardia

Which drug should you not use in cattle?

Chloramphenicol

What should you use to treat a cestode infection in reptiles

Praziquantel

How should you give amikacin to a turtle

IM in thoracic limb

Animal with head tilt, rotatry nystagmus, no CP deficits. Where to localize lesion?

periphreal vestibular

Animal with tetraparesis with decreased reflexes in thoracic limbs and increased in pelvic limbs. Where is lesion?

C6-T2

What should be included in the anesthetic plan of a dog with a pproptosed eye

Propofol

What works to provide analgesia in a horse with colic

Butorphanol

What drug when given as sedation will make phlebotomy more difficult due to vasoconstriction?

Dexmedetomidine

Which of these is accurate regarding FeLV and FIV testing

if FIV positive may have previously been vaccinated

Animal with intention tremors, dysmetria. Localize the lesion

Cerebellum

Recumbent bellowing cow with ptyalism, present menance but mydriatic pupils, monocytes in CSF, flaccid tail and anal tone

Rabies

Blocked cat comes in what do you do first?

Palpate bladder

How to remove a linear foreign body in a cat

gastrotomy/enterotomy

Lab with a foreign body. Don't premed with hydromorphone because...

Vomiting

Horses most likely to suffer from nigropallidal encephalomalacia

non-irrigated pasture?

Guinea pig eating lettuce only with swollen joints and rough hair coat

Hypovitaminosis C

Rat with red tear staining and enflamed feet. What should you ask about?

cage bottom

Post-partum cow with a high pitched ping on L side

Displaced abdomasum (LDA, ping rib spaces 9-14)

Persian cat with facial alopecia. What should you do first

Wood's lamp

Dog adopted from a shelter in LA. Has exercise intolerance and dyspnea. What do you suspect?

Heartworm

Kitten tested positive for FeLV. What should you do now?

Confirm w/ antigen test - IFA

Herd with Johne's dz What should you do to eliminate it from herd

Keep new calves away from feces, remove from dam and feed pasteurized or negative colostrum and segregated untol >1 yrold

Cat with a fluid filled mass on the cranial mammary gland. What should you do next

Cytology, radiographs, AUS, bloodwork

Dog with generalized lymphadenopathy, weight loss, decreased appetite. First diagnostic?

LN aspirate

2-3 week old calves with diarrhea, cows with abortions

BVD

Beef cattle wit oral ulcers

Vesicular stomatitis

A few days after an exertional rhabdomylosis event, which lab value would be elevated?

Ketamine should be stored

in a locked box

Ketamine is a

class III drug

Phosphorous enema causes

hyperNa, hyperP, hypoK, hypoCa | vomiting, weakness, dehydration, death

Cat with idiopathic megacolon. What do you recommend to owner?

Warm water enema

Cat with hyperglobulinemia and polygammopathy. What is the diagnosis?

FIP

Transudate effusios are commonly associated with

PLE?

In a molar extraction what's a common complication?

Fractured tooth root

In a wet to dry bandage, what is the maximum amount of time you can leave it without changing it

24 hours

What parts of the body are most sensitive to radiation

lens, skin, reproductive organs

Anaplasma in cattle mostly affects which animals most severely?

Animals over 4 years of age

Which porcine disease do you not have to report in 24 hours?

PRRS

What goes in a sharps container?

Needles,slides, broken ampules, butterfly catheters

Horse with epiphora, but no blepharospasm or stain uptake. What do you do?

Flush nasolacrimal duct

In livestock what does the veterinarian have to do in order to prescribe medications?

Have sufficient knowledge of the animal

How would you repair an oblique fracture of the tibia?

Plate

Horse was in a trailer accident and needs to be euthanized, how?

Equidistant between ears and eyes

What is RVT allowed to do?

remove fractured canine tooth

What happens in 24 hours after heat prostration

DIC

Listeriosis v. polioencephalomalacia clinical signs

Polioencephalomalacia - head pressing, opisthotonos and grinding of teeth Listeriosis - circle to bad side, facial paralsysi, profuse, salivation

Cannot see horses epiglottis on intubation, why?

Displaced soft palate

Mange in cattle, which is reportable?

Sarcoptic

Side effects of TMS in horses?

transient pruritus after IV, hypersensitivity reactions, neuro effects, cutaneous vasculitis, and hematologic effects (anemia, thrombocytopenia, or leukopenia, crystalluria)

What drug would you combine with xylazine to get better sedation and less ataxia in horses?

Ketamine

What test could you do to quantitively evaluate parasite control in a group of young horses?

McMasters

Trichomonisasis in cattle causes

infertility

Best diagnostic test for EPI

TLI

Best method of comparing nutritional data of commercial diets in large animals

crude analysis

Cat presents with vomiting and diarrhea. US reveals bilateral hydronephrosis and bloodwork reveal renal azotemia. History - lives with 6 cats, indoor/outdoor, spayed 5 days ago. What is the next diagnostic step?

excretory urogram to rule out ureteral obstruction

Horse runs into a barn wall and sustains an injury. Mydriatic and blind. Where's the lesion?

Optic nerve

Signs of horner's syndrome - which is incorrect? a) miosis b) ptosis c) enophthalmos d) mydriasis

d) mydriasis

Papular lesions on arms and trunk of a human. Which mite?

Demodex

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