From:
"Handke_Mike"
Date: 2008-03-06 19:52:53 UTC
Subject: [ferrethealth] Re: Pre surgery bloodwork question - Please help
To: ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com
--- In ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com, Andrea <brascoben@...> wrote:
>
> Hi Tressie and everyone,
> I'll try to explain this a little why I need this type of information. My boy River had
insulinoma surgery on 1/22/08. I called the vets 2 wks before his surgery date to find out
when I could bring him in to get the chem panel & cbc done. They told me they could do
it the morning of his surgery date. The following day after his surgery, 1/23, he started
not eating for me, so I brought him down to his emergency vets (different vet). He ended
up passing away on 1/23 at the emergency vet. Come to find out, the surgeon vet did
*NOT* do the pre-op bw like I requested. She gave me 2 responses, that she never got
my message, and then she also said that she thought the bloodwork that he had gotten
done previously on 11/1/07 (almost 3 months before his surgery) was sufficient. (See, the
thing is, I've been going to this vet for years, and she's always recommended the bw be
done w/in a week of surgery. She knows. And she knows that I know that this is
suppossed to be
> done.)
Did you sign consent forms or any other documents that had the bw listed on the say of
sx? If so, I'd imagine you'd have a pretty good case assuming your little one's cause of
death was something that could have been anticipated. At the clinic where I work, bw is
recommended to every animal and required for older pets or one's who's condition
warrants it. Younger animals often opt out. To generally say that the pre-op bw is
standard might be misleading, my own ferret had similar sx without pre-op bw, but it was
definitely something they talked to me about.
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