Exotics this week, and so far, so good. My case at the moment is an old parrot with breathing problems. To find out what is wrong with him we had to take some x-rays and give him a thorough check over. Unfortunately he isn't the most friendly of birds (to some people, he loves me. Or he did.)
To get a really good look we had to knock him out. There are so many bits of kit involved that at times it's hard to actually see the bird. My job was the monitor the anaesthetic during the operation.
It's very difficult to take the heart rate of a parrot - it's normally somewhere about 240 beats per minute, depending on the species. Everything went OK apart from a small panic as his heart rate decreased a bit. It was decided to give up at that point.
The verdict? Chronic air sac infection from several years ago. We now have just 3 days to fix years of problems whilst he stays in. Suboptimal. But at least he's alive!
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