Full-Size Horse Models Teach Equine Clinical Skills
Erica Larson
February 4, 2012
The models allow students to practice a variety of medical procedures before working on a live horse.
The models allow students to practice a variety of medical procedures before working on a live horse.
This procedure involves intravenous antibiotic delivery to the lower limb via a vein close to the trauma site.
Upcoming topics include moon blindness, headshaking syndrome, metabolic disease, and ocular cancer.
Despite their ghastly appearance most jaw fractures can be repaired relatively easily in a field setting.
A two-week Equine Biosecurity e-Session will be available April 16 – 29 for $75 (plus HST) per person.
The horse’s metabolic processes provide the body with the fuels it needs to sustain itself.
Ensure a bacterial infection that will respond to antibiotics is actually present before beginning treatment.
Turn your mismanaged manure pile into an asset with these new technologies.
If a horse eats an adequate diet there might be no need for supplementation without a specific deficiency.
The UHC’s Operation Gelding program has aided in gelding 359 colts or stallions to date.
Veterinarians can prescribe aquatic therapy in the form of swimming pools or underwater treadmills.
This year’s program will focus on pasture weed control, reducing parasite loads, and when to fertilize.
The stallion was a model patient at the UF in 2008 and 2009 and is now being turned into a Breyer model horse.
Mixed study results indicate more research is needed to determine dosing frequency and therapeutic window.
The multistate outbreak in 2011 illustrated the need for infectious disease control in the equine community.
More travelling and visitors for residents, and the admission of rescue cases prompted the new policy.
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