Pre and post-operative care

Question 1

What does the consent form contain?

Answer 1

Patients name, signalment, and description. Surgical procedure to be preformed, and risk associated with the procedure.

Question 2

What do preoperative lab tests normally include?

Answer 2

CBC, Glucose, total protien, blood urea nitrogen, alanine aminotransferase.

Question 3

What is included in patient preparation?

Answer 3

Implement preanesthetic instructions, withold food and water prior to anasthesia, confirm patients identity and surgical procedure prior to being done

Question 4

How often should an animal recovering from surgery and anesthesia be checked for TPR?

Answer 4

Every 10-15 min

Question 5

What temp should an animal maintain during and after surgery?

Answer 5

above 97 degrees

Question 6

What types of animals have increased risk for complications?

Answer 6

Neonatals, lean, and geriatric animals

Question 7

What does PCV stand for?

Answer 7

Packed Cell Volume

Question 8

What is a normal PCV in a dog?

Answer 8

34-55%

Question 9

What does CBC stand for?

Answer 9

Complete Blood Count

Question 10

What are two tests you can run to check for hemorrhaging?

Answer 10

PCV and CBC

Question 11

What are clinical signs of hemorrhaging?

Answer 11

Pale mucos membranes, slow CRT, rapid respiration, abdominal bloating, swelling at surgical site.

Question 12

What can cause seroma?

Answer 12

a postoperative patient who is overactive, extensive tissue damage during surgery, failure to appose all tissue layers during surgical procedure

Question 13

How can you treat seroma?

Answer 13

Applying warm, moist compress or drain.

Question 14

What is Dehiscence?

Answer 14

Sutures have failed

Question 15

What is the ideal suture material? (4)

Answer 15

• maintains strength
• absorbs w/o inflammation
• easily manipulated and never slips
• does not infect or traumatize tissue

Question 16

How long does Absorbable suture hold before it begins to loose it’s strength?

Answer 16

60 days

Question 17

What is absorbable suture used for?

Answer 17

appose tissue inside the body and fast healing tissues, may cause inflammation

Question 18

What is a tapered point needle used for?

Answer 18

Soft tissue

Question 19

What is a cutting, inverted, and eliptron needle used for?

Answer 19

Tough tissues or skin

Question 20

What is myofiliment suture?

Answer 20

Suture with only one strand

Question 21

What is the disadvantage of myofiliment suture?

Answer 21

hard to handle with poor knot security

Question 22

What is multifiliment suture?

Answer 22

multiple intertwined strands

Question 23

what is a disadvantage of multifiliment suture?

Answer 23

causes trauma as it goes through the skin

Question 24

What is the range of suture sizes?

Answer 24

10-0 to 5

Question 25

What are the most often used suture sizes?

Answer 25

2-0 and 3-0 for small animals, 0 for large animals

Question 26

what are the 4 common types of absorbable suture?

Answer 26

Surgical gut (multi), polygalactin 910 (multi), polyglycolic acid (multi), and polydioxanon (mono)

Question 27

What is a downside to using surgical gut?

Answer 27

Causes inflammation

Question 28

What are the 5 types of non-absorbable suture?

Answer 28

Silk (multi), Polymerized caprolactun (multi), polypropylene (multi), polyamide (multi), stainless steel (mono).

Question 29

What are the two types of suture needles?

Answer 29

eyed and swaged

Question 30

What are the sizes needles come in?

Answer 30

0-20

Question 31

on a needle, the lower the number means what?

Answer 31

the bigger the needle