Ridecamp: Fwd: Re: [RC] Perspective from a Volunteer at Fort Valley

> --- "Hopkins, Lorretta J." <lhopkins@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Greetings to all riders/readers.  SNIP
> 
> Loretta,
> 
> It's great to hear that you had such a great time. 
> I
> missed Ft Valley for the first time in years - wish
> I
> had been there!  Scribing for the vet is a great
> experience - especially if you get to work with
> someone who likes to talk & explain what they are
> seeing.
> 
> > What I learned this year that I had not known for
> > the past seven years I've
> > been taking horse pulses - is
> > that my stethoscope has an on/off switch.
> 
> You're "kind of right".  You sound as though you
> have
> a sprague-rappaort style 'scope with the revolving
> head.  As you flip the head, you have the opportnity
> to listen with either a diaphragm or a bell to pick
> up
> different types of heart sounds.  I use this to
> auscultate for heart murmurs in children.  The
> diaphragm side (commonly used for P&R's) has the fat
> plastic disk.  The bell side is a bit like a dixie
> cup
> used to pick up lower frequency sounds.  Not all
> sprague-rappaport 'scopes are set up with both the
> bell & diaphragm, so it may not be obvious.
> 
> The head has to be set so that you are hearing thru
> the correct pick up!  Nothing so frustrating as
> KNOWING it should work & it doesn't in the stress &
> activity of the P&R box.
> 
> I loved the time that I was told by a P&R person to
> see the vet IMMEDIATELY!!!  As a front runner, I was
> over stressing my horse.  I was the first horse this
> person had done a P&R for.  She read my horse as
> 104! 
> In reality, he was 52.  She counted "lub dub" as 2
> beats.  I thought it was funny but I think she was
> mortified!
> 
> Thanks for volunteering at the Ft. Valley.
> 
> Linda
> Blue Wolf Ranch
> West Virginia

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