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==Clinical Examination== | ==Clinical Examination== | ||
Revision as of 21:50, 20 February 2008
Courtesy of C. Antonczyk
Clinical Examination
The vet performs a clinical exam and finds the following:
- Duke is dull and cooperative (even though he is normally aggressive and impossible to examine).
- The heart rate is 200 beats per minute and the mucous membranes appear pale.
- Duke's abdomen is visibly distended and there is a firm oblong viscous pressed firmly against the left body wall.
- Duke is making unproductive retching attempts.
What would you do next?
- Click here to see what the vet did.