how to explain death in assignment

Re: how to explain death in assignment

Saskia Quinn — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 18:59:57 GMT

sometimes survival also depends on how quick the animal receives veterinary care.

The first case of GDV I ever saw was a 4 year old Irish Wolfhound who had been home alone all day, owners returned home to bloated abdomen and non productive retching, straight to vets and he was almost at collapsing stage, iv lines in both cephalic veins with fluid therapy at shock rate but he was becoming more cyanotic with every second and never would have survived induction of anaesthesia, never mind the actual surgery so he had to be euthanased.

So dont feel bad because your patient died and good luck with your assignment.

Re: how to explain death in assignment

Katie Mansfield — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 16:47:44 GMT

No worries Key to writing good assignments - lots of tea, chocolate and chill out

K x

Re: how to explain death in assignment

xhappysvn21x — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 16:05:12 GMT

fab idea!!! REFERENCE!!! why didnt i think of that before sometimes i get my self so worked up i forget the basics. thanks katie x

Re: how to explain death in assignment

Katie Mansfield — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 14:04:52 GMT

in which case it will be obvious from the rest of the essay that everything that could be done was - so I wouldn't worry too much

How about mentioning some stats - there must be some journal articles with that in - about GDV op survival rates and that although your surgeon and the nurses did everything they could sadly the patient lost the battle for life? sounds a bit better than "the dog died"

Good luck

K x

Re: how to explain death in assignment

xhappysvn21x — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 13:40:23 GMT

lol i would but this is the start of my discussion at the end of the case, i basically waffled about the intensive nursing care, monitoring and recording the paragraph before...

Re: how to explain death in assignment

Katie Mansfield — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 13:28:54 GMT

Could you post the paragraph or the few sentences that lead up to the bit where your patient died? I might be able to help a bit more then

K x