Message Number: SG5204 | New FHL Archives Search
From: mjanke@miamiferret.org
Date: 2003-07-03 21:45:49 UTC
Subject: RE: What is "DIC"?
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
Message-ID: <5500021.1057268749384.JavaMail.root@thallium.smartgroups.com>

DIC = Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation. It's a disorder of the clotting mechanism of the blood and as I understand it, is the result of other problems and not a disease onto itself.

mike

Author wrote:
> Hi all,
> I had a ferret pass recently and after talking to the vet, he said he thought there might have been complications from DIC but he either didn't explain it well or I just didn't understand it because at the time I was rather upset.