January 29 2016

Last week a very exciting patient came in with a very bad heart condition. An older male dog with a heart condition that prohibits his heart from properly beating, which leads to fluids draining into the abdomen. The dog's chest would fill with fluid, making it very hard to breath and uncomfortable in general. The plan was to sedate him and lay him comfortably flat on the exam table so we could insert a needle and syringe into his abdomen to draw out the fluids. In the picture above you can see the light red pigmentation of the fluids. It is like this because it isn't straight up blood, it is "blood like" fluids from the heart not properly processing them. We ended up with half a gallon of fluids!