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> Perhaps I should have proposed  a question to ridecamp vets: Do you (vets)
> believe that the expense of manditory necropsies would be a wise
investment
> of the AERC's money?
Yes, I do, speaking only for myself.  I'm hoping that the necessity for a
necropsy would be few and far between, and so the expense to AERC would be
fairly minimal in relationship to the big picture.


 Iff so what would you want to learn in relation to
> the proper treatment of crashed horses?
Again, speaking only for myself.  The problem is that regardless of what you
find in necropsying one horse, it doesn't mean that that information applies
to all crashed horses.  Having said that, the info that I would be
especially interested in, aside from finding any obvious lesions such as a
ruptured stomach, would be a histological (microscopic) survey of the kidney
tissues to assess prior renal damage.  Sometimes you can even see that
without a microscope.  I'd want to see what food was in the GI tract and
whether it seemed to have been moving and processing normally, or was
contributing to an impaction.  And, I'd take a darn good look at the stomach
to look for prior evidence of compromise, as well as at a little nook in the
circulatory system called the cranial mesenteric artery to assess parasite
damage and occlusion of blood flow to the GI tract.

In short, you never know what's going to be relevant information until you
get in there.  That's why a lot of pathology labs have a sign over the
entrance that say, "Welcome to the Halls of Truth".

Susan Garlinghouse DVM



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