Jennifer Brown, DVM, DACVS

Thorough and timely assessment play a significant role in successful treatment of the critical colic

Guidelines for evaluating equine foot lameness

Assessment and stabilization of equine musculoskeletal trauma

Guidelines for equine intra-articular therapy

Assement of reproductive emergencies in the mare

Guidelines for managing the colic patient

What is pain? "An unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage" (International Association for the Study of Pain)

Definition: Lateral or medial deviation to the long axis of the bone in the frontal plane

Breeding associated emergencies and peri-parturient emergencies

What are we managing? Hydration, dehydration, ongoing losses, ingesta, inflammation, pain, distention, motility and ileus, endotoxemia.

Those structures that can be associated with lameness: hoof, synovial structures, bone, tendons, ligaments.

Common sources of poor performance: lameness, upper airway, lower airway, cardiac, myopathy, or any combination of the above.

Sources of respiratory noise: laryngeal hemiplegia, dorsal displacement of the soft palate, pharyngeal collapse, alar fold flutter, epiglottic entrapment, axial deviation of aryepiglottic folds, lower airway inflammatory disease.

Types of musculoskeletal trauma: wounds and lacerations, skin, deep structures (tendon, ligament, joint, bone), vascular injury, nerve injury, fracture.

Thorough and timely assessment play a significant role in successful treatment of the critical colic.