What would you ask the owner? Has the animal been interfering with the stitches? Has it eaten something it usually doesn't? How long has the rash been there? Did it appear suddenly or gradually?

What treatment plan do you think the vet may put in place? A cream for the belly or an antibiotic, or tablets to battle an allergic reaction.

How long has it been like this?

Antihistamines / cream

Does it live with any other animals?

What sort of bedding are they on?- does this irritate them

Antibiotic cream

Stop interference

Ask the owner if the dog has been licking at the stitches if they have kept their collar on. Ask if maybe when they’ve been on a walk have they rolled around in the grass etc.

vet can prescribe an anti-inflammatory cream or ointment

Rash or allergic reaction hives

What would you ask the owner ?

When did you first notice the rash, have they been their usual selves DUDE ? Have they been licking or itching at the site ?

What treatment plan do you think the vet will put in place ?

Swabs and maybe bloods, NSAIDs

Have they kept their collar on and have they licked at the wound site.

Allergic reaction

Irritation

What would you ask the owner?

Has the patient been interfering with there wound

How long have they had the rash ?

What treatment plan do you think the vet may put in place?

Cream

Antihistamine

Antibiotics

Wound (sutures) seems to be ok

Could be an allergic reaction, or trying to itch the wound.

Could also be nothing to do with the wound and a separate issue.

Ask the owner- have they been doing anything unusual? Do they have allergies? Had this happened before? Have they been unsupervised outside? Have they been in any woodland environments recently?

Treatment- a type of cream

When did you notice swelling

Anti-inflammatories

If the patient has interfered what care the owner has done

Make sure buster collar is being used and maybe consider a medical jumpsuit/ recovery suit

Are they good eating and drinking normally

When did you first notice this

Possible drainage

Swab for testing

Open wound

Debridement of dead tissue, tissue may continue to die days afterwards. May be hard to suture together due to tension and little living tissue that is left. Wound is near a joint so worry about bacteria tracking into the joint

Have they been bothering it?

A cream/ointment to soothe it.

The depth needs to be considered as bacteria can track deep inside. Wound needs to be properly flushed so that no bacteria is trapped in the wound when it starts to heal, otherwise an abscess could form

ask the owner:

Has patient interfered?

has the patient come into contact with something new?

how long has the rash been there for?

Treatment plan:

Anti-inflammatories

When did you first notice this

Any lameness

Swab testing

Flush

Bandage to keep clean

Antibiotics

Pale gums Indicative of poor perfusion: may be indicative of shock, circulatory collapse, haemorrhage, anaemia or severe vasoconstriction.

What treatment plan do you think the vet may put in place?

• Treat cause of shock (e.g. Control haemorrhage)

• Keep warm and comfortable

• IV fluid therapy

• Observations

• TPR

• CRT

• MMs

• Dressing changes - Haemorrhage?

• Pupillary reflex

• Palpebral reflex

• Consciousness

• TLC

Where have they been

Swab and investigate

Possible allergy to any medication prescribed, interference from patient?

Test/ask owner for what potentially caused the allergy?

Medication to reduce rash.

allergic reaction to dressing/stitches or infection of the skin

ask owner if they have been licking the wound/ what activities they have been doing, when this started.

maybe antihistamines or antibiotic cream

On an awkward position for stitches - quite a lot of movement in that area.

Inflammation of testicles

Ask owner- how long has this been going on? Anything unusual been happening?

Treatment- castration, inflammatory

Avulsion

Necrosis, has there been nerve damage

Firstly stop the bleeding by applying pressure. Clean the wound and apply a dressing. Cut off any necrotic tissue

Haematoma/swelling

Give fluid therapy

iron infusion if anemic

What do you think is wrong ?

Pale mucus membrane

Infection

What would you ask the owner ?

Have they been I terfering with the wound ?

How long has the swelling been there?

Have they been eating bkrmaly and rinking

What treatment plan do you think the vet may put in place?

Antibiotics

How did it happen

NECROSIS

infection

Is it clean? Debris? Foreign bodies?

Contaminated

Surgery

Dirty laceration

Doesn’t look like it’s putting weight on it

Bleeding

Swat the wound

Check for infection.

Has the patient been interfering with any injuries?

Has the patient been lame?

When did the owner first notice?

Blood tests

Clean-contaminated

How deep is the wound

Possibly due to barbed wire?

Healing process may be be quite lengthy as it’s a massive wound that is in an area that moves

Depth

Cause- e.g possible snake bite - poison

Possible foreign bodies

Infection

Hospitalise? Bandage care?

Open wound

Internal damage

Seroma

activity levels any interference both animal and owner

Anti-inflammatory

Abrasion

What would you as the owner ?

Is there anything they could have ruled there leg on

What treatment plan do you thi k the vet may put in place?

Keep the wound clean

Antibiotic cream

Swab to test.

Cream?

Reaction from patient interference?

Prescribe an antibiotic cream, keep patient from getting to area (cone), keep animal inside other than toileting so the area can stay clean from other contaminants

Could be blood loss, anemia, dehydration, too much anaesthesia

ask owner when it started and if the patient is interfering with wound

IVFT, iron infusion, give blood

Clean contaminated

Swab the wound

See depth, could have pieced cavities

Possible ultrasound??

Dress

Ask owner full history, when first noticed if not post laser wound

Treatment plan swabs, flamazine, keep clean and dry

Advise owners not to remove any foreign bodies at home .

Clip away the fur in the area as they are hard to spot and may be deeper the more fur you clip away.

X- ray the wound to see how deep it is and if it is near any major organs or has cause internal damage.

They may not bleed as much so tell owners it is still a cause of concern even if it’s not bleeding so they should still bring the animal in.

What happened? When did it happen?

Clean gently with correct solutions.

Clean blood off leg.

Consider location area of increased

if not when did it begin

What caused this? - bite, fence, nail - will need to be flushed/ cleaned as will be dirty and contaminated

Laceration that is hemorrhaging

Which classification would this fall under?

Dirty wound

What considerations would you have for the care of this wound?

Stop bleeding g my applying pressure first

Clean the wound to remove any foreign body