cats pulse rate survey

Re: cats pulse rate survey

Luca Poddighe — Wed, 01 Apr 2015 17:11:48 GMT

I think the useful parameter that you can get from this study is to ask owner to check HR at home, at the end of the day it's no rocket science to count beats over 15 second and multiply by 4. It would remove the stress parameter but there will be some issues of reliability of the client.

Re: cats pulse rate survey

Neil Wheadon — Mon, 30 Mar 2015 23:54:00 GMT

[quote user="Gareth C."]Useful for home diagnosis. Eg the cat with p r 180 in practice would be okay. If we want to take it to the next level we can take our cats to work and recheck.... Maybe not[/quote]

Actually that's not such a crazy idea.

Custard (Ginger cat) was 112 on the sofa, would be really interesting to know what effect a surgery visit did. If you had enough data it would be very interesting I'm not suggesting everyone takes their cat to the surgery but if you do and you remember this post ....... (pink pigs aloft maybe)

Neil

Re: cats pulse rate survey

Gareth C. — Mon, 30 Mar 2015 18:05:41 GMT

Useful for home diagnosis. Eg the cat with p r 180 in practice would be okay. If we want to take it to the next level we can take our cats to work and recheck.... Maybe not

Re: cats pulse rate survey

Luca Poddighe — Mon, 30 Mar 2015 15:39:48 GMT

[quote user="Simo"]

My cat is supposedly 9-ish years old (rescued as a young adult 8 years ago), so she could be over the range required. Anyway she's healthy as far as we are aware of and has a 96 pr at rest (sleeping, actually).

[/quote]I thought it was a story very similar to mine... then I realized that you're my wife!!! :)

Re: cats pulse rate survey

Martin Atkinson — Mon, 30 Mar 2015 10:50:12 GMT

I think cats' heart/pulse rate are so variable that an exact measurement is not practical. From experience I just categorise it as slow, 'normal' or fast for the circumstances then decide if there is a brady or tachy dysrhythmia or a gallop rhythm. I think resting respiratory rate is a more practical tool.

Re: cats pulse rate survey

Gillian Mostyn — Mon, 30 Mar 2015 00:06:33 GMT

Only asking for 1-10 year olds that are healthy... Sounds like yours fails on both counts!

Re: cats pulse rate survey

tess — Sun, 29 Mar 2015 23:07:10 GMT

120 in an approximately 11year old who hates being handled. She's also <ahem> rather portly.

Wasn't sure which box to tick as there are 2 options.

Re: cats pulse rate survey

Simo — Sun, 29 Mar 2015 16:09:34 GMT

Re: cats pulse rate survey

Sammy82 — Sun, 29 Mar 2015 15:35:37 GMT

Can I vote twice? I've got 2 cats. We really should not underestimate the white coat effect, or even just the stress of traveling. I ones took my cats temperature after a car ride when he was perfectly healthy because I noticed how hot and pink his ears got in the car. It was nearly 104*F! So how often do we treat cats for a "fever" when they are just excited about their journey and the whole experience?

Re: cats pulse rate survey

Joyce Whitehead — Sun, 29 Mar 2015 14:51:38 GMT

[quote user="Gillian Mostyn"]

Haven't voted as my cat is 16 although (or so I thought), healthy. Just found she has a HR of 180 at rest though..... Hmmmm.....

[/quote] This survey may therefore already be very useful...

Re: cats pulse rate survey

Gillian Mostyn — Sun, 29 Mar 2015 13:43:47 GMT

Haven't voted as my cat is 16 although (or so I thought), healthy. Just found she has a HR of 180 at rest though..... Hmmmm.....

Re: cats pulse rate survey

Julian Earl — Sun, 29 Mar 2015 12:25:24 GMT

117 when he's hard at work sleeping on the sofa.

Re: cats pulse rate survey

Gareth C. — Sun, 29 Mar 2015 09:39:29 GMT

[quote user="Michael Woodhouse"]

2 questions - why does it matter? It's like establishing the heart rate of a swimming cat - it's of little use to you in your consulting room.

What about cats that sit on a borderline - you have doubled up so a rate of 140 could fall in 2 boxes. Can you edit?

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The reason it matters is that it may be a new fact or piece of information. Theres a lot of stuff we all know that isn't a lot of "use in the consulting room" but is stuff we.should know (first three years at vet school :-)!). Also I think it is useful to know for the consulting room. Borderline tachycardic cats often present and the owner may say, "there was a dog in the waiting room" or "she hates the car". Owners would be well capable of checking hou r or p r at home to clarify- I certainly get o to check resp rate at home as that is very dif to asses in the consulting room.

Re the boxes and editing, not sure I can but people can always add a comment.

So in short I think it would be of clinical use, and secondly even if not it would be interesting to know. They spent a lot more effort finding the higgs bosun and thats no use to anyone in day to day work!

Re: cats pulse rate survey

Michael Woodhouse — Sat, 28 Mar 2015 22:25:30 GMT

2 questions - why does it matter? It's like establishing the heart rate of a swimming cat - it's of little use to you in your consulting room.

What about cats that sit on a borderline - you have doubled up so a rate of 140 could fall in 2 boxes. Can you edit?

Re: cats pulse rate survey

Joyce Whitehead — Sat, 28 Mar 2015 21:17:40 GMT

I have voted, but as my cat is 15 and has early renal failure, I shouldn't do. However i was surprised to find his pulse was 106. So I added him. Interesting idea and I will be keen to see the results so thanks for posting!