Fast heart rate, near death, Please help!

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Heart reate (bpm) : 120-130 AT REST
Temp; 101.5
Breath per minute: 25
Swollen abdomen filled with fluid
Gut sounds
Capilary refil is fine, color is fine
easily out of breathe
weak
sheath swollen/tendon swollen
no bite marks
laying down
kicking feet
depresses
stopped eating/drinking

Please help! My friends horse became really sick in the past week and the vet has no idea what is going on! The horse is lethargic an they can see the heart beat in his neck! Please help! Thank you!

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I agree with the advice on the post you linked. Get another vet. Sounds too ill to travel but how far is the nearest horse hospital? Is there no chance of getting him there?
 
get the horse to another vet or another vet out to it. Sounds like possibly some kind of poisoning or something like it.Have any bloods been taken?
 
Closest good place is UC Davis which is 30 minutes away... Cant get another vet out because she live on an air force base.. they took blood and they will find out tomorrow.... lets hope for the best!
 
I had a horse with these symptons, he had heart and liver failure, i tried to save him, various drugs later resorting to a homepathic vet who did stabilise his heart but the liver was to far gone and then one day i found him dead in his field and i so wish i hadn,t battled to save him, he was a dear brave horse, i should have listened to the fist vet and had him pts. I would get a vet to do an ECG on your horse,it can be done at your yard, if his heart is very bad it will affect the liver and then you get a jugular pulse and odema of the limbs and abdomen if this is the case have him put to sleep as otherwise will waste away and sometimes collapse,don,t make the mistake i made,i will regret it forever. My thoughts are with you.xxx
 
Knew of a horse that had a very high resting heart rate. Turned out he had a very small tear in his heart, which meant the heart had to work harder. This also meant it was unable to heal.

He was field rested for a while, but then sadly died.

Sorry, not a good outcome.
 
Please get this horse a vet or call Newmarket Equine Hospital or Glasgow University Equine Hospital or Minster Vets in York who may be able to diagnose or at least manage the pain and symptons until a diagnosis is found, it is suffering by the sounds of things.
 
beeswax said:
Please get this horse a vet or call Newmarket Equine Hospital or Glasgow University Equine Hospital or Minster Vets in York who may be able to diagnose or at least manage the pain and symptons until a diagnosis is found, it is suffering by the sounds of things.
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OP is in USA - near UC davies - California and they are exellent!!!

Bandera said:
Heart reate (bpm) : 120-130 AT REST
Temp; 101.5
Breath per minute: 25
Swollen abdomen filled with fluid
Gut sounds
Capilary refil is fine, color is fine
easily out of breathe
weak
sheath swollen/tendon swollen
no bite marks
laying down
kicking feet
depresses
stopped eating/drinking

Please help! My friends horse became really sick in the past week and the vet has no idea what is going on! The horse is lethargic an they can see the heart beat in his neck! Please help! Thank you!

Read more: http://www.horseforum.com/horse-health/fast-heart-rate-near-death-need-73946/#ixzz191h7XgBD
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Possible fulminant heart failure - doesn't sound good. I'd be referring. Sorry.
Hope the horse gets immediate attention.
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Imogen
 
Agree about heart failure especially the oedema, fast heart rate
My ID/Thoroughbred has a similar symptoms in 1994 It started with an increased respiration and an irregular heart beat. lethargy annorexia
He went for treatment quinnidine sulphate which gave no relief and eventually he kept collapsing and I had to have him PTS.
I had a PM and the valves of his heart were damaged causing the blood not to be pumping around the heart and hence the acute oedema,
I was convinced that he also had starvation of oxygen to the brain as his behaviour was strange.
I sent all the signs and symptoms to Newmarket and the diagnosis was equine herpes virus that can attack the valves of the heart.
The vet did not pick up the problem at first but I knew there was a serious condition and insisted on investigation.
I am sorry that my thoughts are not positive but please get an assessment sooner rather than later.
 
sounds like some kind of poisoning/ reaction or heart condition


Lets hope the blood test gives you something to go on.

Good luck i hope the horse is okay, but if he is the same tomorrow im sorry but i think it could be kinder if he was pts?

i'd reccomend york minster equine vets.
 
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