45 Spinal trauma

Veterinary Clinical Podcasts

Dominic Barfield

814108, Higher Education, Education, Medicine, Rvc, Science & Medicine, Veterinary, Science, Higher, Royal

5 • 643 Ratings

🗓️ 14 July 2017

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

In this podcast, we talk to Dr Patrick J Kenny. Pat was a senior lecturer here at the RVC lecturer in veterinary neurology and neurosurgery, though has recently returned home to Sydney. We talk to Pat about an approach to spinal trauma, the Do’s and Don’ts, what imaging to perform and how to immobilise a patient.

Immobilisation
Primary survey (ABC’s, or major body systems)
Oxygen
Check for deep pain
Analgesia
Secondary survey
Focus on maintaining blood pressure and keep up with oxygenation
Diagnostic imaging – survey radiographs and CT

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0:00.0	Gooday. Dominic Barfield here and this is the RVC Clinical podcast. Big thank you to everyone
0:06.7	that's listening and make sure you hit the subscribe button on your smartphone and we're really
0:11.4	grateful for you taking the time to download and listen to this podcast. We don't know so much
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0:22.4	now and leave us a review. Obviously, a five-star review would be great, such as those that have been
0:27.8	recently left. KG258, have only just discovered these podcasts, and now catching up on the whole
0:34.1	library of really useful topics. Great refreshing knowledge from picking up
0:38.0	a few new top tips to very enjoyable and entertaining. Thank you, RBC. So really thank you for the time
0:43.7	to give us a review. And it really helps with the metrics, things that I don't necessarily
0:49.1	understand. But at least it helps people get the clinical information to the people that want it. So this
0:57.6	week, talking to Dr Patrick Kenny. This is a Skype recording that I did with him. Patrick was
1:04.8	very patient with me from getting to grips with the intricacies of recording a podcast on Skype.
1:14.3	Sadly, Brian wasn't involved with it was.
1:15.8	I'm sure it would be a much better experience for all of us.
1:19.5	What we've done is we've divided the talk into a into two because Patrick had a lot to say.'s that's great for us. Patrick was head of the
1:31.4	neurology and neurosurgery service here at the RBC and now he's in back on his home shores of
1:39.1	Sydney, Australia at a referral clinic soon to be determined, if not already in the local press.
1:47.8	He's also one of my friends from university. We graduated together and I've slowly followed him
1:53.2	around the world. So we're going to talk to Patrick about spinal trauma. He's known as the person
1:59.8	who has performed more hypersectomies in the world than anyone
2:03.1	else on dogs or cats. So, but we're actually going to talk to him about spinal trauma today. So
2:09.2	on with the show. If we're talking about traumatic spinal cord injury, secondary to external trauma
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