Hello and welcome to the Small Animal Clinical podcast, brought to you from the Royal Veterinary College in London.

My name is Shailen Chasani.

And today it's my great pleasure to welcome Elvin Calendra.

Elvin is a diplomat of the European College of veterinary surgery and a lecturer in small animal surgery at the RVC's Queen Mother Hospital for Animals.

Elvin spends most of his time at the moment doing orthopaedics.

That's right, isn't it?

That's correct.

Excellent.

So thanks very much, Elvin, for joining me today.

So today I thought we would discuss a general approach to blunt traumatic limb fractures in dogs and cats.

And I'm hoping to provide the listeners with an overview of how to approach these cases

and then also to expand a little on a couple of issues of interest that we can discuss.

Before we get into the gist of the podcast, I obviously have to start off with my emergency

and critical care hat on by reminding the listeners about how we should go about

approaching a blunt trauma patient.

So in other words, start by focusing on assessing the major body systems and prioritising

life-saving interventions and analgesia.

And we will most definitely be coming back to these concepts in a future podcast.

But for the purpose of this podcast, Alvin, let's assume that our patient is

stable in other respects. Okay. Now this probably sounds a little bit daft, but then you already

know that about me. I'm daft and I'm proud to be daft. The first thing I wanted to ask you is,

basically, what is going to make us suspect that a limb fracture is present? So in other words,

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