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==External examination==
# Measure and weigh the snake and examine the external features.
# Check the skin for bite wounds, bruising, bleeding, ulcerations, burns, swellings, scars, retained shed and ectoparasites.
# Examine the nares, spectacles, eyes, oral cavity and cloaca.
# Assess the musculoskeletal system for body condition and palpate for pathology of the vertebra.
==Internal examination==
# Open the coelomic cavity. Split the fat body in the median line to expose the organs. Check for fluid.
# Examine all organs in a systematic manner - liver, gall bladder, spleen, pancreas, heart, large vessels, thyroid, lung, oesophagus, stomach, small intestine, large intestine, kidneys, gonads, adrenal glands and eventually the brain.
# Open trachea, lungs, heart, oesophagus, stomach and the intestinal tract, and section other organs as necessary.
# Take swabs as appropriate including heart blood, liver, spleen and kidney.
# Take sterile smear of heart blood for staining.
# Put liver, lung, kidney, spleen and intestine in both formal saline (transfer to 70% ethanol after 48 hours) and frozen in sterile container.
# Make impression smears of different parts of intestines.
# Take a sterile sample of any abnormal gut contents, make a smear in saline.
# Wash the gut contents out in saline, examine for signs of parasites.
# Inspect the gonads to sex definitively.
==External examination==
# Measure and weigh the snake and examine the external features.
# Check the skin for bite wounds, bruising, bleeding, ulcerations, burns, swellings, scars, retained shed and ectoparasites.
# Examine the nares, spectacles, eyes, oral cavity and cloaca.
# Assess the musculoskeletal system for body condition and palpate for pathology of the vertebra.
==Internal examination==
# Open the coelomic cavity. Split the fat body in the median line to expose the organs. Check for fluid.
# Examine all organs in a systematic manner - liver, gall bladder, spleen, pancreas, heart, large vessels, thyroid, lung, oesophagus, stomach, small intestine, large intestine, kidneys, gonads, adrenal glands and eventually the brain.
# Open trachea, lungs, heart, oesophagus, stomach and the intestinal tract, and section other organs as necessary.
# Take swabs as appropriate including heart blood, liver, spleen and kidney.
# Take sterile smear of heart blood for staining.
# Put liver, lung, kidney, spleen and intestine in both formal saline (transfer to 70% ethanol after 48 hours) and frozen in sterile container.
# Make impression smears of different parts of intestines.
# Take a sterile sample of any abnormal gut contents, make a smear in saline.
# Wash the gut contents out in saline, examine for signs of parasites.
# Inspect the gonads to sex definitively.