Changes

Gastric Dilation and Rupture - Horse (view source)

Revision as of 13:29, 11 August 2010

29 bytes added , 13:29, 11 August 2010

→‎Clinical signs

Line 31: Line 31:

*Pale mucous membranes

*Retching(Merck)

−

*Gastric reflux (time to development is proportional to the distance to the intestinal segment involved, e.g. 4 hours with duodenal obstruction(147). '''''NB: nasogastric intubation does not preclude the possibility of gastric rupture(146).'''''

*Ingesta appears at the nares in severe cases

+

*Gastric reflux

+

NB: the time to development of reflux is proportional to the distance to the intestinal segment involved, (e.g. 4 hours with duodenal obstruction(147)). Furthermore, '''''nasogastric intubation does not preclude the possibility of gastric rupture(146).'''''

'''Gastric rupture''' typically results in:

*Relief

Nmr28

1,406

edits