Medications
This is a mucosal protectant used to treat and prevent gastric and hindgut ulcers.
What is Sucralfate?
This breed was developed for horse racing and is considered "hot blooded".
What is a Thoroughbred?
A buildup of excess gas in the intestines.
What is gas colic?
Acute abdominal pain that stems from the GI tract.
What is colic?
The removal of testicles in a male horse.
What is castration?
1g of Bute paste is equivalent to this many mLs.
What is 3mL?
This American breed is known for its colorful spotted coat pattern.
What is an Appaloosa?
A blockage consisting of feces, feed material, and/or sand in a section of the intestine or colon.
What is impaction?
Inflammation of the tissues that connect the hoof wall to the coffin bone.
What is laminitis?
Surgical removal of the eyeball.
What is enucleation?
An IV drip used to manage pain, reduce inflammation, and stimulate gut motility (prokinetic).
What is Lidocaine CRI?
This breed is a small horse of cob confirmation and is typically piebald.
What is a Gypsy Vanner?
A condition where a section of the intestines moves out of its normal anatomical position within the abdomen.
What is a displacement?
A disease of parasitic nature that affects the brain and spinal cord that is obtained by eating opossum feces.
What is EPM?
This procedure is commonly used to sample respiratory secretions via the trachea that may be causing a respiratory disease such as pneumonia.
What is a trach wash?
This medication is an amino acid precursor to serotonin and promotes a quieter behavior.
What is Tryptophan?
This is known as a Pure Spanish Breed and is frequently used in dressage.
What is a PRE?
Where a section of the intestine twists on itself.
What is torsion?
A contagious upper respiratory infection in horses that causes inflammation within the lymph nodes which can lead to suffocation.
What is Strangles?
This surgical procedure permanently locks the fetlock joint.
What is a fetlock arthrodesis?
A bronchodilator used to manage airway obstructions like equine asthma.
What is Clenbuterol? Often sold as Ventipulmin Syrup.
This breed is known for having ear tips that turn inward.
What is Marwari?
When one segment of the intestine slides or folds inward into an adjacent segment, resembling a closing telescope.
What is intussusception?
A severe and frequently fatal nervous system disease cause by toxic bacteria that enter the body through open cuts or puncture wounds, often leading to stiffness.
What is tetanus?
A surgical procedure used to treat laryngeal hemiplegia (paralysis of the throat muscles).
What is a tie-back surgery?