Good-day, Dominic Barfield here, and this is the RVC Clinical Podcast. Thank you for listening,

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one of our lecturers here in surgery at the RVC. Hello, Matt. Hi, Dom. And we thought we'd

we'd talk about, like, GI surgery. Well, maybe I coerced you into that. I didn't know.

We'll see that.

Because I suppose it's one of the things that maybe, you know, I suppose there's questions to ask about what has sort of changed.

How do you approach to certain things?

So we thought we'd like try and bundle this into a chat.

So maybe can I ask, do you have a, I suppose, like an approach, if you were

to do an X-Lap about how you run guts or the intestines? Yeah. So I think the preparation is key

for these cases and it starts way before we start to run the gut.

So certain things that I make sure before I go into these cases is that the animal is clipped appropriately.

So we should have the whole abdomen clipped. We want to make a reasonable sized incision so that we can explore the whole abdomen.

And so I will clip from the middle of the chest and then the whole abdomen so that we can drape as wide as possible

and get the really the biggest wound on the abdomen so that we can explore.

So we should explore thoroughly.

So we should make the wound from the zephyde

all the way coddling the abdomen, almost to the pubis.

To be able to explore thoroughly.

And then we should use retractors to retract open the abdomen.

It's really important that we do that to give us the best exposure of the abdomen.

And once we've done that, got our large wound, got our retractors in place,

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