Miosis in a chinchilla

RE: Miosis in a chinchilla

Bibs — Tue, 13 Mar 2018 12:34:19 GMT

Lateral

RE: Miosis in a chinchilla

Bibs — Tue, 13 Mar 2018 11:57:13 GMT

I'll download your app for future reference but if you would post the video that'd be great.

I have tried to attach the radiographs although they are a bit over exposed. I'd be interested to see what you think of the stomach and anything else. It's not huge but it's bigger then I'd expect.

edit: I'm having trouble uploading the lateral view but will try again

RE: Miosis in a chinchilla

Mark Rowland — Mon, 12 Mar 2018 21:47:44 GMT

Sorry about that.

Bloating often causes respiratory compromise

That bg sounds pretty terminal too

Would you like me to post a video of io placement in a chin. If they are collapsed you can do it under local.

Mark

RE: Miosis in a chinchilla

Bibs — Mon, 12 Mar 2018 20:52:17 GMT

Thank you for the info. We continued supportive care and had a headache as the owner was uncontactable for most of the day. We did go ahead with full body rads though.

Unfortunately shortly after the rads the chinchilla died. She was flat enough just to lie on the x-ray table and was deteriorating. I might post the images tomorrow. The stomach looked quite bloated even though the abdomen didn't feel tense or bloated. I need to look a few normal chinchilla images. Blood glucose was 25mmol/l on a dog glucometer. I didn't know about the cranial vena cava option for bloods so got a tiny volume for the above tests. O wants to know why she died so might get a PM done. We shall see.

RE: Miosis in a chinchilla

Mark Rowland — Mon, 12 Mar 2018 16:46:12 GMT

A vertical slit Iris is normal in chinchillas.

Bloods/rads and continued supportive care

For the bloods, theres a video on my App but you need the cranial vena cava

IO fluids work well in collapsed chins.

Since GA is required for the bloods, you can place the io catheter in the femur and take some rads at the same time

Post them if you like

Goodluck (hic!)