Friday I had the opportunity to spend 3 hours in the equine clinic at the vet school here in Hannover. The people there was amazingly welcoming. First they gave us a complete tour of the clinic, which is 200 years old! I am very glad that we had the chance to see the old clinic because they are moving to their new clinic in September of this year.
We were able to watch them prepare for a 2 tooth extraction on a pony, a blacksmith fitting shoes on a horse, and then we got to stand in on a surgery! This was by far the highlight of my trip so far. The surgeons were great, and didn’t mind us being in the way. We watched the induction of anesthesia, and surgery of a horse where they were coiling the internal carotid artery because he was having chronic mycotic infections of the gutteral pouch. They did this to both prevent septicemia, and to keep the infection from eroding the artery allowing the horse to bleed to death through his nose. They performed the surgery by placing a catheter into the common carotid artery, which they then advanced under the supervision of fluoroscopy into the internal carotid artery to place the coil. The coil functions to stop the blood flow through the internal carotid.
Because we stayed here in Hannover for the weekend, we had the opportunity to go to the Bovine clinic on Saturday evening to help with the evening medication rounds. The students were fantastic and let us help and perform a lot of the treatments ourselves. We were able to drench several cows (administering 30L of fluid into the rumen), subcutaneous injections, and others!
While there, we saw a calf that had had a complete penis resection. It was amazing. They had restructured the urethra so that he could urinate just ventral to the rectum. The site of resection was one of the most extensive I have ever seen.
The time I have spent here in Hannover has been the highlight of my trip so far!
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