Crazy Cat Lady
What breed of cat does T-Swift have?
Scottish Fold
What is the additive in the purple top tube?
K+ EDTA
Dalmatian with stranguria.
Urinary stones. For 200: what type of stones?
Name for incision into the stomach.
Gastrotomy
How many pairs of ribs do dogs and cats have? Excluding mutant Frenchies...
13, hence T13
Young cat presents with upper respiratory signs and tongue ulcerations. What common URI virus presents this way?
Calici virus (the C in FVRCP vaccines)
A red top tube makes what? A green top tube makes what?
Red - serum
Green - plasma
Great Dane with a-fib and collapse.
DCM
What recumbency is a patient in if they are placed on their back?
Dorsal recumbency
What are the 3 sections of the small intestine? Double the points if placed in order.
Duodenum -> jejunum -> ileum
This sodium channel blocker, commonly used in CRIs here, is not advised for use in cats.
Lidocaine.
You placed your blood sample in the purple top first, then the green. Your blood work comes back and the potassium is 9.3. The patient is not clinical. What happened?
Contamination of potassium from the purple top tube. Re-draw your sample and run it again.
Dobermen with a laceration that will not stop bleeding.
Von Willebrand disease
Your capnograph is reading 75 mmHg. Is your dog too deep or too light?
Too deep
Describe the pathway of a red blood cell. Start at either vena cava and end at the aorta.
Cranial / caudal vena cava -> right atrium -> right ventricle -> pulmonary artery -> lungs -> pulmonary vein -> left atrium -> left ventricle -> aorta. For double: name the 4 valves
FIP is the mutant form of what virus?
Coronavirus
Your Cavi dog has low platelets (44,000), but does not have ITP. What is happening?
Macrothrombocytopenia - breed variant. This breed is know to have low numbers (-penia) of large (marco-) platelets. No bleeding disorder will develop. Not all Cavi's have this.
Chocolate Lab with persistently elevated liver enzymes that are not responding to supportive care.
Copper Storage Disease
Your doctor asks for an atraumatic clamp so that a resection and anastomosis can be performed. What clamp are you grabbing?
Doyen clamps
What bone do cats and people have, but dogs do not?
Clavicle
Saddle thrombus is usually secondary to what cardiac disease?
HCM. For 100 more: what does HCM stand for? For 500 more, explain the difference between HCM and DCM.
BUN and Creatinine are a measure of kidney function. However, they are not made by the kidneys. Where do BUN and creatinine come from?
BUN - liver
Creatinine - muscle breakdown
Border Collie on ivermectin treatment for mange is now acutely blind.
MDR1 Mutation. For 1000: what is the new name for the MDR allele?
Your heart rate has dropped and an anticholinergic is needed. You have atropine and glycopyrrolate available. What is the big medically relevant difference between the two?
Atropine - works faster, does not last long
Glyco - slower onset, lasts longer
Cranial is towards the head and caudal is towards the tail. But when you're talking about a lesion on the nose, it is past the head. What directional term do we use for things on the front half of the head or on the nose?
Rostral