My first encounter with Vienna Schonbrunn Zoo and the its vet staff, took place during our weekly practice of the Conservation Medicine Module. Parts of our CM class had to come each Wednesday at 8 o’clock and join the vets on their daily activity. My first day was pretty exhausting, we had to tirm the [...]
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Overall Impressions from Vienna Zoo Practice
Posted in Vienna Zoo Practice, Zoo Diary, tagged Vienna Schonbrunn Zoo ; zoo vets; zoo externship on 21/06/2009 | Leave a Comment »
Wound Management in an European Bison
Posted in Vienna Zoo Practice, Zoo Diary, tagged Acepromazine, bison lameness, Clostridium perfringens, CO2 Dan-Inject JM rifle, diprenorphine, Ethorphine, European Bison, Flunixin, Large Animal Immobilon, Revivon on 02/06/2009 | 2 Comments »
The vet received a phone call about a European bison who was been seen lame. We had to drive to the country side were the animal was been housed in an enclosure with its herd. The keeper said that the animal was first seen limping in the morning and the evening before he didn’t see [...]
Sugar glider eye enucleation
Posted in Vienna Zoo Practice, Zoo Diary, tagged Anesthesia, eye enucleation, Half-closed sistem, Hemostasis, inhalatory Oxigen-Isoflurane, neurectomy, Sugar Glider, tarsorraphy on 10/05/2009 | Leave a Comment »
The sugar glider’s eye status worsen over the last week and the surgery seemed to be the last option . It was broth to OP and submitted to general anesthesia. As an analgesic Butorphanol was the drug of choice.Because of it’s small size, the patient was put under a bigger mask facing the table and [...]
Bearded Dragon Skin Allergy; Iguana Limb Fracture; Chameleon Osteodystrophy; Hermann’s Turtle Pneumonia
Posted in Vienna Zoo Practice, Zoo Diary, tagged Baytril, Bearded Dragon, Chameleon, Chloride Channels, Enrofloxacin, Fracture, Hermann's Turtle, Iguana, Osteodystrophy, Pneumonia, Selamectin, Skin Allergy, Stronghold, Tobradex on 05/05/2009 | Leave a Comment »
A Bearded Dragon came to the clinic to check its skin problem. The lizard was found in December and presented a massive infestation with mites. It was given Selamectin (Stronghold), which acts by opening the chloride channels allowing the chlorine ions to enter the parasite nerve cells inducing neuromuscular paralysis. At this medical control the [...]
Transport of a Roan Antelope; Sugar Glider Eye Infection; Plastron Necrosis of a Turtle
Posted in Vienna Zoo Practice, Zoo Diary, tagged Acepromazine, alpha 2 agonist, Betnesol-n, Etorphine, Eye Infection, Immobilon, Iodine bath, Meerkat, Mongoose, Morphine, Naloxone, Plastron Necrosis, Revivon, Roan Antelope, Sugar Glider, Turtle, Wildlife Transport, Xylazine on 12/04/2009 | Leave a Comment »
One Roan Antelope had to be shipped to a zoo in Great Britain. A danish wild animal transporting company provided the shipping. To get the animal into the transport box, the vet and the keeper considered that they should tranquilize it inside shelter building and then guide it inside the box. The antelope was an [...]
Ultrasonography in two Galapagos Tortoises; Anesthesia in one Gibbon; Handling a Newborn Porcupine
Posted in Vienna Zoo Practice, Zoo Diary, tagged Anesthesia, Atipamezole, Blow pipe, Galapagos Tortoise, Gibbon, Handling, Ketamin, Neonates, Porcupine, Sexing turtles, Stockholm Zoo, Tiletamine, Ultrasonography, Xylazine, Zolazepam, Zoletil on 05/04/2009 | 1 Comment »
Two Galapagos Tortoises had to be transported to Stockholm Zoo and for this matter they’ve had to be examined and the sex determined. Diagnostic ultrasonography was used to identify the sex of the turtles. Each turtle was placed sternally on a ladder which restrained the movement. A linear ultrasound transducer was placed on the [...]
Wallaby Nostril Infection; Indian Rhino Blood Sampling and X-Ray
Posted in Vienna Zoo Practice, Zoo Diary, tagged Atipamezo, Atipamezole, Blood Sampling, Indian Rhino, Infection, Ketamine, Medetomidine, Pain management, Target training, Wallaby, X-Ray on 04/04/2009 | Leave a Comment »
An adult, hand raised Wallaby male was presented with the left nostril swollen. Due to his aggressive behavior and constant fighting with other males, 2 weeks ago he was scratched/bitten on the nose. Despite a surgical incision on the outer site of the lip and the treatment with marbofloxacine, the nostril continued to get swollen. [...]
