From:
sindahise@yahoo.com
Date: 2005-05-17 16:50:26 UTC
Subject: RE: Emergency - Anemia!!!!!! (Life threatening)
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
Message-ID: <3571936.1116348626239.JavaMail.root@thallium.smartgroups.com>
Author wrote:
> Hematocrit (HCT or PCV) is definitley not run from a blood smear. It is run in a microhematocrit tube just as Mike said. Have they taken a CBC and/or chem? A CBC run at the lab can also tell you if its regenerative or not. Does she have kidney problems? (Thats just one of the many things that can cause non-regenerative anemia.) Keep her well hydrated and eating till you get back to your vet.
> Serena
Sorry, was out of town getting her a transfusion yesterday - a procedure that went poorly but did result in at least a partial transfusion, why is it nothing can go well in this case!?
They did do a cbc PRIOR to her surgery. It came back with an RBC value of 10. That is the only real CBC ever done on Teegre during this incident. And that was 1 day post a transfusion of 12cc of fresh blood so she SHOULD have been in good shape. I don't, unfortunately, have the rest of her values. I should have gotten copies of the reports but frankly I was so scattered by the bad transfusion that all I wanted to do was get out of the clinic with a live ferret.
>From physical reactions (ie what goes in DOES come out) her kidneys appear to have extremely good function and they looked good on sonogram. She eats and drinks very well. Appetite is amazing and the little worm is putting weight on like mad.
I have utilized every vet that deals with ferrets within a 3 hr drive and my lack of response on lab tests isn't because I'm not requesting them, it is either Teegre doesn't have the blood to draw and/or I'm not getting them done by the vets. At this point frankly the blood in Teegre's veins isn't hers. The argument I have gotten from every vet I've seen since the first transfusion on the 4th is that there is little point in doing lab work now as she is working on transfused blood exclusively - not her own.