summertoots
Well-Known Member
Just out of curiosity (sp?) what would you do in this sutuation.
You have a usualy fit and healthy gelding, lets say he is 25, but thinks hes still a youngster, and has a real zest for life.
You take him in one evening and he's not looking right, lets say its a choke. So you phone a member of a certain profesion, and they come out and say yes its choke and treats said horse.
The next day he seems bright, but has a cough, so this profesional you had out the day before sends one of their newly qualified members of staff out to tube your usualy healthy horse to see if he has a blockage.
However, this newly qualified person f*cks up. Lets just say something nasty goes wrong, like when they remove the tube the horse starts bleeding heavily from its nose, perhaps the equivalent of three buckets is lost, not counting the puddles on the floor.
After that this horse becomes very ill. White blood count so low its is critical but too sick to travel as vet school is four hours away. It can no longer eat, drink, its body becomes one huge oedema externaly, it develops an infection from the tube, it cant be put on a drip due to the oedema. A blood transfusion was atempted but this poor horse went into anaphylactic shock so the transfusion was abandoned.
It can by this point only manage small mouthfulls of mushy cubes and SB water, and its getting weeker. it then colics. Is having to be pumped full off morphine and fynadine. He gets over the colic and some how keeps fighting. you spend all your time watching him looking and hopeing he gets better, even a small sign. But in your heart you know you are going to loose him, but while you see he is still fighting you cant make the horible decision.
So here is my question, would you blaim the person who tubed badly, or is it just high emotions looking for someone to lash out at? Remember he was fit and healthy all his life and had a mild choke till this person tubed him.
Oh and just to add, you heard on the grape vine this wasnt the first time this person had made a mess of a simple procedure.
Of course this is all a hypothetical question!
You have a usualy fit and healthy gelding, lets say he is 25, but thinks hes still a youngster, and has a real zest for life.
You take him in one evening and he's not looking right, lets say its a choke. So you phone a member of a certain profesion, and they come out and say yes its choke and treats said horse.
The next day he seems bright, but has a cough, so this profesional you had out the day before sends one of their newly qualified members of staff out to tube your usualy healthy horse to see if he has a blockage.
However, this newly qualified person f*cks up. Lets just say something nasty goes wrong, like when they remove the tube the horse starts bleeding heavily from its nose, perhaps the equivalent of three buckets is lost, not counting the puddles on the floor.
After that this horse becomes very ill. White blood count so low its is critical but too sick to travel as vet school is four hours away. It can no longer eat, drink, its body becomes one huge oedema externaly, it develops an infection from the tube, it cant be put on a drip due to the oedema. A blood transfusion was atempted but this poor horse went into anaphylactic shock so the transfusion was abandoned.
It can by this point only manage small mouthfulls of mushy cubes and SB water, and its getting weeker. it then colics. Is having to be pumped full off morphine and fynadine. He gets over the colic and some how keeps fighting. you spend all your time watching him looking and hopeing he gets better, even a small sign. But in your heart you know you are going to loose him, but while you see he is still fighting you cant make the horible decision.
So here is my question, would you blaim the person who tubed badly, or is it just high emotions looking for someone to lash out at? Remember he was fit and healthy all his life and had a mild choke till this person tubed him.
Oh and just to add, you heard on the grape vine this wasnt the first time this person had made a mess of a simple procedure.
Of course this is all a hypothetical question!
