Older horses have not been shown to be at any greater risk of colic compared to other age groups and the incidence of colic in horses z20 years of age was reported to be 4.2 colic events/100 horse years in one study conducted in the USA. In common with other age groups, colic was ...
ACVECC, associate professor in the Department of Clinical Studies at New Bolton Center, University of Pennsylvania, has the clinical impression that older horses do just as well as younger mature horses after colic surgery. However, not all veterinary specialists agree, and the veterinary literature...
Colic symptoms are generally related to the degree of pain and the horse’s ability to tolerate the pain. While some horses will exhibit dramatic signs from even a small degree of gas distension, other horses (especially older ones) may be very stoic, and show only mild signs in spite of ...
485,486,493,494 Older horses have a far greater likelihood of developing strangulating lipomas.462,477 Colic may affect horses of any breed, but some breed predispositions have been recognized. An increased incidence of colic has been recognized in Arabians and Thoroughbreds.455,457,485,495 ...
ACVECC, associate professor in the Department of Clinical Studies at New Bolton Center, University of Pennsylvania, has the clinical impression that older horses do just as well as younger mature horses after colic surgery. However, not all veterinary specialists agree, and the veterinary literature...
Older horses at the time of surgery were less likely to return to performance. These findings can help inform the cost/benefit decision-making process regarding colic surgery in jumping horses.Equine Veterinary Education
Older Horses and Colic SurgeryThe article presents a study which revealed that colic surgery survival rates for both young and old horses are similar.E. PPractical Horseman
Small intestinal strangulating obstruction is the most common surgical finding in neonates, while findings in older foals more closely mimic those found in adult horses. Specific techniques for repairing gastrointestinal lesions that are more common in foals than in adults (e.g., gastric outflow ...
Older horses tended to have a lower overall surgical survival rate than younger horses. The overall survival rate of the colic-affected horses was 58.8%. The overall survival rates for the horses with small intestinal, large colon or small colon surgical conditions were 25, 37 and 70%, ...
An update on analgesia is also provided; older drugs such as ketamine and lidocaine are increasingly being recognized both for their analgesic properties and other potentially beneficial effects in endotoxemic horses. 展开 关键词:Anesthesia Colic Endotoxemia Equine Exploratory laparotomy Horse ...