Good day. Dominic Barfield here and this is the RVC Clinical Podcast. Thank you for listening and thank you for subscribing on your smartphone or generic fruit brace device.

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brian and myself actually in the studio which is quite good because we spent a bit of time vacuuming

it we're joined by the wonderful linda rutherford who is one of our senior lecturers here in

soft tissue surgery at the raw vet college and head of the soft tissue surgery service.

And we thought we'd shout about what to do with ureteric issues, I suppose, as a general

in a surgery sense.

So we've spoken before about managing block cats and I suppose the demographic of the population about it but we thought actually

what do you do when what is what is Linda's approach when we get stuck so thank you very much

for joining us yes exactly we've spoken on a previous podcast about like how like the initial

sort of management we have for these cats.

But I suppose when the question that really have to you to start straight into it,

Linder, is what do you do when we can't actually pass a retrograde urinary catheter into a cat?

So how do you sort of decide of a plan to do that?

And if we, if say we're trying, if the patient say does have a ure abdomen, for example,

that we might be able to establish urinary drainage another way by putting in an

abdominal drain, for

example. But what do you, what do you think? Does it... And so this is like a F-O-U-T-D?

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. How about we say for a start? Oh, yeah. Yeah, urinary tract abstraction.

Maybe there's a ureteric stone or we think there's a stone. Rather than the traumatic. Yeah, we'll speak about the traumatic in a bit.

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