From:
Sukie Crandall
Date: 2009-02-25 18:12:36 UTC
Subject: [ferrethealth] laser rather than cryo
To: fhl <ferrethealth@yahoogroups.com>
I needed to look up cryo info for a vet recently.
He is an excellent classic surgeon but is looking
for options when the Vena Cava is compromised.
A summary of the major things that I learned so far:
1. The main vet who popularized the use of cryo
for ferrets no longer uses it. He instead uses
a special type of laser (brochure is to be send to
me) and finds that it gives better control, has fewer
chances of scarring and of bleeding, and winds
up with less tissue regrowth. He has even used it
on 9 year olds.
2. There is a study published in the AVMA in
which greater probability of dying after surgery
was connected with cryo use, but of course, cryo
a number of vets reserve cryo for cases where the
Cava presents a problem so those would be more
difficult, anyway, and I don't know if the study
controlled for that.
3. Multiple vets who replied said that they personally
had chosen to not go with cryo.
Sukie (not a vet)
Recommended ferret health links:
http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/ferrethealth/
http://ferrethealth.org/archive/
http://www.afip.org/ferrets/index.html
http://www.miamiferret.org/
http://www.ferretcongress.org/
http://www.trifl.org/index.shtml
http://homepage.mac.com/sukie/sukiesferretlinks.html
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