The photos in the blog are NOT in order...a glitch with the laptop, the browser, all sorts of things. So...the point is I cannot rearrange photos to tell a logical story. So you get bits and pieces of out really big day at Animal Aid. Today we did a blood transfusion for a little puppy! We picked a resident dog to be the donor, rounded up all the supplies, and did the transfusion. The puppy had it's leg amputated yesterday, it was badly broken and starting to rot. But in the meantime, he was anemic and dehydrated. He seems to be doing very well, hopefully he will continue to do so. The photo above is Erika feeding papaya to the nurses that stayed in with the puppy to monitor the transfusion drip.
This is another puppy that had it's leg amputated today.
Sanjeev held a staff meeting today to talk about what the clinic staff envision for Animal Aid now and in the future.
Everyone around the surgery table during the transfusion.
The transfusion was given with a 22 gauge butterfly catheter. It seems to have gone well, but I need to do more research on what the minimum needle size is for transfusions...if it's too small then you can hurt the blood cells.
Suraj and Minnie.
Some of the staff with our donor dog, and her blood donation. (Peggy? Polly?)
Prepping the donor dog so that we can get to her jugular vein. She was really good about everything. I was surprised to realize that when they prep the animals for surgeries or things like this, they cut the fur away with scissors and then use a straight blade to get down to the skin. They had a pair of clippers but the clippers were from Canada and something went wrong with the electrical conversion to India's system, and they died. I want to buy them clippers. NOT that watching the straight blade process wasn't fascinating. It was. They are very good at it. But wow!!!
This is the puppies leg before amputation...the surgery for today. (The puppy that got the blood donation was yesterdays surgery.)
The photos in the blog are NOT in order...a glitch with the laptop, the browser, all sorts of things. So...the point is I cannot rearrange photos to tell a logical story. So you get bits and pieces of out really big day at Animal Aid. Today we did a blood transfusion for a little puppy! We picked a resident dog to be the donor, rounded up all the supplies, and did the transfusion. The puppy had it's leg amputated yesterday, it was badly broken and starting to rot. But in the meantime, he was anemic and dehydrated. He seems to be doing very well, hopefully he will continue to do so. The photo above is Erika feeding papaya to the nurses that stayed in with the puppy to monitor the transfusion drip.
This is another puppy that had it's leg amputated today.
Sanjeev held a staff meeting today to talk about what the clinic staff envision for Animal Aid now and in the future.
Everyone around the surgery table during the transfusion.
The transfusion was given with a 22 gauge butterfly catheter. It seems to have gone well, but I need to do more research on what the minimum needle size is for transfusions...if it's too small then you can hurt the blood cells.
Suraj and Minnie.
Some of the staff with our donor dog, and her blood donation. (Peggy? Polly?)
Prepping the donor dog so that we can get to her jugular vein. She was really good about everything. I was surprised to realize that when they prep the animals for surgeries or things like this, they cut the fur away with scissors and then use a straight blade to get down to the skin. They had a pair of clippers but the clippers were from Canada and something went wrong with the electrical conversion to India's system, and they died. I want to buy them clippers. NOT that watching the straight blade process wasn't fascinating. It was. They are very good at it. But wow!!!
This is the puppies leg before amputation...the surgery for today. (The puppy that got the blood donation was yesterdays surgery.)
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