eHow launches Android app: Get the best of eHow on the go.
Summary: Medical information for pets in a veterinary hospital is charted everyday to keep track of food intake, temperature, medications and blood work. Find out about pet medical information with tips from an experienced veterinarian in this free video on pet care.
Dr. James R. Talbott is a staff veterinarian at Belle Forest Animal Hospital and Kennel in Nashville, Tenn. In addition to providing general animal care for many different types of...read more
"We are going to talk about pet medical information and what we keep track of on a day-to-day basis for our patients in the hospital. We keep flow charts and medical charts for our patients which we update on a day-to-day basis and this is something that helps everyone keep track of things as far as in hospital, are they eating, is the patient having any vomiting or diarrhea, are they feeling good? We also want to keep track of temperatures on a day-to-day basis to make sure these animals that are sick are actually responding to the medications. We also want to keep track on medical records what medications they are taking and at what frequency. Also on a day-to-day basis we are looking at sometimes blood work and systems that could be effected by disease such as the liver or kidneys and we have rather large diagnostic panels on some of these animals that we can run to help us diagnose disease and help us find out if our medications are actually working against those diseases as well."
eHow Article: Pet Medical Information
Copyright © 1999-2009 eHow, Inc. Use of this web site constitutes acceptance of the eHow Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. en-US Portions of this page are modifications based on work created and shared by Google and used according to terms described in the Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution License.
