As with every area of veterinary medicine recently, emergency medicine has seen an overwhelming increase in patients. I’m lucky enough to have worked in a busy, high-level medicine critical care center in a very populous city. At this clinic, we see intense, university-level cases including severe diabetic ketoacidosis, snake bites, trauma, and many more. I […]
Hungry, Hungry Haemonchus
Today, I had my first fatal run-in with the infamous Haemonchus contortus. After responding to an emergency call for a colic, we were asked to come out to a farm with a down sheep. The sheep had been down for a day and was reluctant to eat or drink. It had separated itself from the herd, […]
