Vomiting (difficult - all worth 500 points)
Region of the brain that receives input from drugs or hormones to initiate vomiting. This is the reason for morning sickness in pregnant women.
CRTZ - chemoreceptor trigger zone
What does FLUTD stand for?
Feline lower urinary tract disease
What breed passed the labs as the most popular dog breed in the US?
French Bulldogs
What does DKA stand for?
Diabetic ketoacidosis
You have to give a 2.44kg rabbit LRS at 100 ml/kg/day. What fluid rate will you set the pump to?
10 ml/hr
This area is outside of the blood-brain barrier, so it is able to react to medications more readily (such as opioids) and therefore cause nausea.
Chemoreceptor trigger zone
How many teeth does a cat have?
30
A 14yr old lab comes in from the boarding facility with stertorous breathing and needs to be immediately intubated. What does he most likely have? Double points: what bigger condition is this a part of?
Laryngeal paralysis (lar-par)
Bonus: GOLPP (geriatric-onset laryngeal paralysis and polyneuropathy)
A ketone is a byproduct of ______ metabolism.
Fat / lipid
This bird is sexually dimorphic.
Eclectus parrot
This sedative can act as an antiemetic and aid with motion sickness.
Acepromazine
A Himalayan cat is a mix of what two breeds?
Persian and Siamese
An inherited condition that leads to arthritis of the coxofemoral joints.
Hip dysplasia
What is more potent? 2 Units of Vetsulin in a U-40 syringe or 2 Units of Vetsulin in a U-100 syringe?
U-40
Name a class of antibiotics that can cause death in a hind-gut fermenter (rabbit, guinea pig, chinchilla).
Cephalosporins (cefazolin, cephalexin, Convenia)
Penicillins (penicillin, amoxicillin, Clavamox)
Lincosamides (clindamycin, erythromycin)
This antibiotic can act as a promotility agent in vomiting dogs with ileus.
Azithromycin
Feline aortic thromboembolism (FATE / Saddle thrombus) usually results from what underlying condition.
Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
Common heart condition of labs.
Tricuspid dysplasia - you will hear a right-sided murmur, as opposed to a left-sided murmur in most other heart conditions.
Name two conditions that can make a stable diabetic become unregulated.
Cushing's Disease
Pancreatitis
Urinary tract infection (really any infection)
Hepatic lipidosis
Cancer
What anatomic variant is present in reptiles that becomes the reason for giving injections in the front part of the body?
Renal portal system - injections will enter the blood stream then can flow through the kidneys and be excreted before acting on the body. This exists to prevent kidney damage during times of water deprivation (living in desert environments).
This anti-emetic also aids with visceral pain by acting on NK-1 receptors (substance P).
Cerenia
This antibiotic can cause blindness (retinal detachment) in cats, but not most other species.
Enrofloxacin (Baytril)
Common hepatopathy (liver condition) of labs, but the Bedlington Terrier is the #1 breed for this condition.
Copper storage disease
Your DKA patient keeps needing more and more KCl in the fluids. What lab value can you check - when this is low, it can often be difficult to get the K+ regulated.
Magnesium
When injected with iodine, this animal will "grow into" a salamander.
Axolotl