Emergency!
Join us May 17th for a detailed look at the EMERGENCY.
We’ll go over:
Medical signs and symptoms in the companion animal that indicate an emergency.
The basic physical assessment we do for an emergency patient.
Both dogs and cats have femoral pulses.
Get in the habit of knowing how to find it
on your pets at home or on your hospital
pets so that you don't misstep during an
emergency.
How we should handle all emergency phone calls.
How we should handle all emergency walk-ins.
Plus a look at some payment options and some tactful ways to handle billing of the emergency client. Interested in attending? Please send me an email at bash@halowconsulting.com
This patient's gums demonstrate it's vigor. They are moist and slippery and their color, a coral pink, indicates good oxygenation and gum health. This technician is pressing his forefinger on a portion of the gum and then removing it. When he does, the gum will go from white back to its original coral pink color as the blood rushes back to fill the place it was pushed from. This is called Capillary Refill Time and can only occur when the heart is doing it's job at moving blood through the body. Normal capillary refill time is less than two seconds. This same effect can be observed in the ear of some patients. Simply squeeze the tip of the patient's ear to push blood from the site and observe how long it takes to flow back.
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