bladder stone removal

Horses have a lot of calcium in their diet. If a horse gets a kidney or bladder infection the debris can act as a focus for the calcium salts to precipitate out and, over a long period of time, cause a bladder stone to form. These are quite rough and jagged and cause trauma to the bladder which then leads to bleeding from the bladder wall, and blood in the horse's urine.

Category:

Pets & Animals

Tags:

• horse
• equine
• surgery
• urolithiasis
• bladder
• stone
• tom
• russell
• surgeon
• blood
• urine

[horsesurgeon]

No just clipped. Shaving causes microabrasions that can potentiate infection.

[horsesurgeon]

No , alive and well. Still alive and well today.

[horsesurgeon]

There are a lot of very large blood vessels in the area that are embedded in fat and can't be seen. If you use a scalpel blade and sever one of them they retract back into the tissue where they can't be retrieved, and the horse bleeds to death. The technique used here is called blunt dissection, and it is the safe and only way to do this surgery.

[horsesurgeon]

Same same the whole way through

[horsesurgeon]

That is correct.

[horsesurgeon]

It smells like stale wee-wee.

[horsesurgeon]

I hope its just all over. i find the thought of eternity quite daunting.

so long as I don't inadvertently end up in horse heaven, Im'm happy. There are a lot of angry castrates waiting for me up there.

[numbstateofennui]

@beccababy73 How do you know how to perform an op on a horse? Are you a surgeon or just a PETA troll? Did you see how DEEP they had to go?!?!?

[booliesaurus]

Just wondering shouldn't the horse have been shaven before the procedure to minimise risk of infection?

[thunderman98]

@3:28 mmmmmmm!!!!....FALAFEL!!!!!

[marialawson7]

wow...my little jack russell is having this surgery monday...iam scared to death for her!!

this horses stone was huge! omg!!!



[FDameion]

i hope you save these stones.. i bet you could sell them on ebay

[MrJoedonbaker1]

Job well done. Very calm and confident.

[Korigetsu1991]

iimagine trying to piss tht thing out...........OUCH!!