rouxel
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Does anybody have any experience (good & bad) of the above? Also in Veterinary
This morning my poor foal, somehow in a 6 acre, fairly muddy field managed to find a rusty old nail and stand on it! The nail penetrated about 1 ½ cms into the front of his pedal bone.
Luckily I found him within a couple of minutes of him standing on the nail and he was seen by my vet within an hour, he was immediately sent to the vet practice for X-rays. Initially the plan was to operate under GA to remove the nail and clean the wound site, but after consulting specialists at Newmarket that was deemed to be too risky, as the foals bone is still so soft & structure small, thered be a high risk of causing greater damage. The only treatment option was to remove the nail carefully, flush out the hole and put him onto an aggressive course of IV antibiotics. He will be at the vets for at least the next 5 days.
Neither my vets, nor the vet at Newmarket (thanks to the wonders of modern technology) have seen a nail actually penetrate into the pedal bone before. In an older horse with harder, stronger bones it would have almost certainly resulted in a fractured pedal bone. The vets being very guarded about the prognosis due the risks of infection, but weve got to give the little chap a chance and a least I found him so quickly after the injury so hopefully there will have been less time for bacteria to take a hold.
This morning my poor foal, somehow in a 6 acre, fairly muddy field managed to find a rusty old nail and stand on it! The nail penetrated about 1 ½ cms into the front of his pedal bone.
Luckily I found him within a couple of minutes of him standing on the nail and he was seen by my vet within an hour, he was immediately sent to the vet practice for X-rays. Initially the plan was to operate under GA to remove the nail and clean the wound site, but after consulting specialists at Newmarket that was deemed to be too risky, as the foals bone is still so soft & structure small, thered be a high risk of causing greater damage. The only treatment option was to remove the nail carefully, flush out the hole and put him onto an aggressive course of IV antibiotics. He will be at the vets for at least the next 5 days.
Neither my vets, nor the vet at Newmarket (thanks to the wonders of modern technology) have seen a nail actually penetrate into the pedal bone before. In an older horse with harder, stronger bones it would have almost certainly resulted in a fractured pedal bone. The vets being very guarded about the prognosis due the risks of infection, but weve got to give the little chap a chance and a least I found him so quickly after the injury so hopefully there will have been less time for bacteria to take a hold.
