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Summary: Veterinary tools are similar to those in any other hospital. Learn about veterinary tools with tips from a practicing veterinarian in this free careers video.
Dr. Albert F. Williams, III studied at the University of Florida where he earned a bachelor's of science degree in agriculture in 1988 and a doctorate of veterinary medicine in 1992....read more
"The tools of a veterinarian are generally the same tools that you would find if you were in a human hospital, stethoscope, otoscope to look into their ears. Most importantly I think that the veterinarian's eyes, his hands, are important too because you initially look at the animal and you develop a system such that you are doing an examination such that you are checking every system as you look at the pet, as you look into the eyes, the ears, the nose, the throat you listen to the heart and the lungs. You palpate the animal, feel for abnormalities in the intestines, in the kidneys, and in the bladder. Some of the tools that we have are dental equipment and we do teeth scaling and polishing just like the dentist does ours. We also use the drill in some instances to cut teeth and remove them when they have more than one root. This is our surgery suite and this is the anesthesia machine and it basically picks up the gas, the animal breathes with a tube and is kept under sedation by breathing the gas anesthetic. When they breathe out the gas comes into the red tube and when they exhale it goes out around the red tube and out of the system. Another thing when animals are on anesthesia we monitor them just like you and I would be monitored while under anesthesia. We monitor the heart rate, respiration, blood pressure, temperature such that we are always aware of what the situation is or how the animal is doing on anesthesia. We also have the animals on IV fluids such that we maintain the blood pressure which is very important for any anesthetic process that would require gas anesthesia."
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