Showing posts with label Trauma. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Trauma. Show all posts

Saturday, 30 August 2014

Choppy Choppy! My Top 5 Surgery Tips (N. Kulendra DipECVS)

STOP THE PRESS! This blog edition is my first ever guest blogger post! Love it. Here Nicola Kulendra, European Specialist in Small Animal Surgery and a dear friend and colleague, shares some of her top surgery tips for you. Also be sure to look out for the free PDF giveaway at the end which contains some other points relating to Soft Tissue Surgery (that is my creation, not Nicola's).

Thursday, 17 July 2014

Heartbroken: traumatic myocarditis/myocardial contusions

Traumatic cardiac injury is probably not something that many people give much consideration to. When we see dogs and cats that have suffered blunt thoracic trauma we think a lot about the thoracic injuries that can compromise respiration such as pneumothorax or pulmonary contusions. But how often do we wonder how the heart is?