Physical Examination
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This examination technique begins as soon as the patient enters the veterinary hospital.
Inspection
This examination technique uses the hands and fingers to evaluate the physical characteristics of body structures.
palpation
Obtaining information about an animals health and help the veterinary team diagnose, monitor, and treat disease/
What is the purpose for blood collection
To provide access to a peripheral or central vein.
What is vascular access?
This arterial site should be avoided in patients with significant coagulopathy or thrombocytopenia.
What is the femoral artery?
This describes the patient's level of awareness and responsiveness during an examination.
Mentation
A normally hydrated animal generally has skin that returns relatively quickly to its normal position after being gently lifted. This assessment helps evaluate this.
Hydration status
An anticoagulant that works by chelating calcium, necessary for clot formation.
What is EDTA (purple top)
Can be used to administer total parenteral nutrition, to collect multiple blood samples, and measure central venous pressure
What is a central line?
Most common sites for arterial blood collections.
What are the Dorsal pedal/dorsal metatarsal, femoral, and lingual arteries?
Listening to sounds produced by the body with a stethoscope is called this.
auscultation
When a patient is in standing position and this technique can be used to detect a fluid line.
Thoracic percussion
Required for blood chemistry panels, serology, immunology and endocrinology test.
What is serum
Located along the cranial aspect of the foreleg and extending medially just above the carpus. Used for small quantities of blood.
What's the cephalic vein?
Arterial blood collections monitor what functions of the sick patient?
Pulmonary function, gas exchange, O2 and CO2 measurement, pH levels of blood.
A dog is standing with its elbows abducted, neck extended, and mouth open while breathing heavily. These observations should make the technician concerned about this.
respiratory distress
A dog cries and attempts to bite when the technician palpates its cranial abdomen. The technician should stop excessive manipulation and do what.
What is notify the veterinarian and document the patient's response?
A milky or cloudy appearance due to high levels of fats (triglycerides & lipoproteins).
What is Lipemic
This procedure is not recommended in patients with increased intracranial pressure.
What is central line placement?
Blood gas syringe containing a lyophilized heparin tablet.
What is an arterial blood gas syringe?
This heart structure lies just above the right ventricle and receives CO2 rich blood from the cranial and caudal venae cave.
What is the right atrium?
When the heart chambers relax to receive blood, it is considered to be in what part of the cardiac cycle?
Collection device which removes calcium from the blood to prevent clotting.
What is a Sodium Citrate (blue top) tube?
Preferred areas for IO catheterization
trochanter fossa of femur, flat medial surface of proximal tibia, greater tubercle of the humerus.
These conditions should be avoided when collecting arterial blood.
DIC (disseminated intravascular coagulation), vWD (von Willebrand disease), and Tonxin ingestions.