Iβm sorry, but I cannot stop laughing at this hedgehog π
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One of the most difficult parts of veterinary medicine is the fact that your patients canβt directly communicate. Oftentimes, issues go unnoticed simply because the animal masks things like pain. Luckily, the vet immediately knew this hedgehog had something wrong, because it kept exploding into a bunch of golden rings.
Free my homie sonic. He done nothing wrong.
Except had a brain tumor causing epilepsy.
It's also the only one that's an Xray instead of a CT
MOISTURISE ME
"That's it I'm taping you down!"
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My favorite is definitely that poor hedgehog, LOL
Mine are the snake and the taped bird
The dolphin sent me.
They really just folded that snake up
That one made me laugh as well. I never knew they had such... unflattering (yet flat!) bodies.
funny sad fact, if a person weigh 600 or more lbs, they sometimes have to use xrays/ct/mri in the zoos that are meant for larger animals.
No shit, I once had the chance to accompany a patient to an large aninmal hospital for an MRI.
The problem: It was so far away that the patient needed to be airlifted. Which was far beyond the capacity of regular HEMS. So they called in the military and they send a fucking CH-53 cargo helicopter. These things are huge and loud. But cool.
That was one interesting ride. Somewhat embarrassing for the patient (who was not in on weight level due to simply eating too much - patient had a massive and life altering orphan hormonal disease) but patient kept somewhat good spirits and the volunteer fire brigade did a good job blocking the view.
Nowadays human medicine has improved - you can now simply use an open MRI with specialised gurneys. They usually can take more than 400kg, sometimes 500kg.
Does a larger MRI produce more data than a smaller one (same data density over a larger volume), or is it the same resolution spread out over a larger space?
It depends. MRI and to an even larger extent CT scans are "targeted" to an area. People are very very rarely scanned "totally".
E.g. you want to look at the cervical spine and therefore only examine this area. While you will also see neighbouring regions these are not necessarily full resolution (only if they can have an impact). So if the imaging run is being done for an area that is not affected much by the fat tissue it won't produce more data necessarily (a cardio MRI is a good example). If you do a abdominal or pelvis MRI/CT is normally does include all tissue and therefore will produce more data.
(Take this with a grain of salt though, while I worked inhospital for a while I am primarily a paramedic and more into repairing vital signs than radiology. While we have mobile CTs nowadays they are brain only and not my area of expertise)
There is an exception for the real complicated cases like the one I mentioned, though. As we didn't want to do the whole transport effort 4 weeks later again because another speciality found another issue the patient was indeed scanned almost completely" (with breaks in-between as that gets uncomfortable fast).
(Sadly enough the whole thing was done 6 weeks later again,indeed, as the patient had suffered from an acute stroke which later killed them. Sad story,really. Never had a chance in life)
I had a patient tell me he had to go to a zoo for an MRI. I thought it was a self deprecating joke but he was serious.
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Do we also get a thread of pictures of animals getting CT scans with their consent?
Thanks for sharing. How does the fish one work? The dolphin I get because it breathes oxygen, but donβt all fish have gills? I feel like it should be in the water.
It can be out for a matter of minutes.
Humans are just ludicrously overdependent on aerobic respiration, our brain metabolism is overcharged to the point of being broken.
Most other animals have a lot more room to function sans oxygen, they're more limited by stored energy reserves.
Iβm in a yoga teacher training at the moment, and a biologist by background. Itβs been amazing seeing how the different yogic breathing techniques impact mental and physical states.
Those crazy folks in the Indus valley civilization made a serious study of this, at least 4,000 years ago according to current evidence. Some techniques, like yoga nidra (alternate nostril breathing for several minutes) have significant impacts on nervous system function.
You can measure this directly with a cheap heart rate monitor and an app that can interpret and returns stats on heart rate variability.
Those old yogis made a study out of exploiting our brainβs dependence on oxygen and developed some pretty cool biohacks.
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Somehow I donβt think the fish consented to this..
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The hamster burritos got me good.
Stopped asking those pesky questions now didn't it?
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A fucking rhino!?
How many people did it take to get him on the gurney?
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I don't think animals are ever okay getting CT scanned
Why couldn't that bird get a sleeping bag like the hamster did? Seems a bit drastic taping it down by the neck
The bird is for a normal x-ray. Here's the context.
CT scans take much longer, but an x-ray is just a few seconds. I think it's just a practical way to get the bird in place for a quick x-ray, and by practical I mean the vet techs minimize their (very real) risk of being murdered.
hehe
Random mirror linker btw:
https://farside.link/https://www.reddit.com/r/VetTech/comments/1ge3kh0/modern_art
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What don't Samsung make?
Good phones π
The snake got me laughing. They just folded it onto itself.
There's definitely two kinds
- Ima napping
- You think this is funny? This cell won't hold me forever. And once I'm free, you will all regret it
The mice got a nice pillow
The crossovers between veterinary medicine and pediatric medicine are a lot more significant than most people like to think about. The Venn diagram isn't a perfect circle....but it's close.
"Against their will" made me chuckle
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