Vet Medicine and Procedures

• Procedures VN can complete under supervision

  • Chase case history
  • Clinical signs
  • Health checks
  • Temperature
  • Pulse
  • Nail Clipping
  • Respiration
  • Sampling of blood
  • Skin scrapings
  • X-Rays
  • Ultrasound scanning
  • Urine and faeces samples
• Clinical Case History 


  Accurate diagnosis and establish appropriate treatment

  Indicate if case is new or old

  Identify whether condition has been inherited
• Health Checks 


  Essential to all people with responsibility over animal

  Abnormal signs picked up can reduce likelihood of disease and get closer to diagnosis
• Clinical Signs 


  TPR

  Behaviour changes

  Weight/ Body Condition Score

  Appetite increase/decrease

  Vomiting or diarrhoea

  Pain signalling

  Lethargy
• Sampling of Blood


  Test for multiple different things

  Inserting a hollow needs into the vein- forelimb of animal

  And attaching a syringe to collect blood from the body
• Skin Scraping 


  Inexpensive diagnostic technique

  Carried out for dermatological testing or ectoparasites
• Ultrasound 


  Non-invasive

  Observation of images in real time

  Allows investigation of different organs

  Assist diagnosing involving the heart, liver, kidney, bladder

  Guide during other diagnostic procedures
• Urine and Faecal Samples

  Can take time

  Test for endoparasites and host of other conditions