Neonate Flashcards
(35 cards)
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Foetal? Parturient? Neonatal? Yearling?
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2
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Normal losses of neonates
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3
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Why aren’t calves like little cows?
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4
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Principles of treatment of calves
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Diseases of calves
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6
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Flow chart for calf rearing
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7
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Calf management and its effect on health
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8
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The 3 Q’s of colostrum
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Quickly: first 6-8 hrs
Quality: SG > 1.060 or Brix reading of > 30%
Quantity: 1-4L
9
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Disease in neonatal calves
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* Infection– local and generalized
* diarrhoea
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11
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Navel Ill
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12
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Umbilical hernia
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Joint ill
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15
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Ruptured ulcer (pinkeye) with iris plugs
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17
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Septicaemia
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18
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Diarrhoea in calves
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19
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Infectious diarrhoea in calves
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21
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Pathogenesis of diarrhoea in calves
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22
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Risk factors of neonates
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23
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Diagnosis of calf diarrhoea
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Therapy for calf diarrhoea
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Scouring calves
Hospital pens- two
3 calves, 50 kg, want to suckle, standing
other pen 2 calves, lying down, one in sternal recumbency and the other is comatose in lateral recumbency
What will you ask? What aspects of the clinical exam are important? what options for treating calves? How will you decide what treatment method to choose?
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Determining percent dehydrated in calves
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Oral rehydration therapy indications
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Faecal consistency/ calf demeanour
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Homemade ORS
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How many feeds/ weather?
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Parenteral rehydration therapy indications
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Principles of fluid therapy
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Parenteral rehydration therapy hypertonic v. isotonic fluids
