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RE: [RC] hydration via rectum - Susan E. Garlinghouse, DVMEven in a fully hydrated> horse, the equine rectal wall is a lot easier to perforate than are other> species How would the vet in Vermont have found out that Crandell's horse's spleen was "displaced" and how would they have "remedied" it. I had already deleted that post but I think that's how they described the incident. You can usually feel the edge of the spleen down low on the left in the abdomen, so if it was elsewhere, that would be displaced. I've felt (or seen, during surgery) a lot of spleens that weren't where I expected them to be in multiple species, although it's not always indicative of a major problem. It *can* be, depending on what else you find. In an equine abdomen, you can't move it around via palpation, you can only do that during surgery with an open abdomen. A lot of the time, a splenic displacement is related to GI problems and a large majority of wrongs are righted with correcting fluid imbalances. Susan Garlinghouse, DVM =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp Subscribe/Unsubscribe http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/logon.asp Ride Long and Ride Safe!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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