Fun Stuff

We had another sheep lab. I "got" to be anesthetist -- which is still more stressful to me than surgery.
Everything went well -- the catheter slid in easy as pie, the sheep didn't wake up on the surgery table, and we put him on a ventilator (so I didn't have to keep track of respiration).
HN and LO did a rumenotomy. Basically, they cut a hole in the rumen and felt around inside (I got to as well). Because of the non-sterile nature of rumen contents, they first sutured the rumen to the skin. Then they cut a hole in the rumen and inserted a wound ring into the hole to keep the surrounding externalized tissue free from rumen material. They had to get new gloves and use separate instruments to close body wall layers.
This surgery is done to lance abscesses in the reticulum, place fistulas, etc.

We also castrated the ram.

Now I must immerse myself in small animal endocrinology in preparation for tomorrow's delightful exam.