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Comprehensive Guide to Pet Physical Exams: Ensuring Your Loved Ones' Health

Learn why physical exams are crucial for pets' well-being, how to perform them, and understand vital signs. Discover the importance of monitoring and partnership in maintaining your pet's health.

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Comprehensive Guide to Pet Physical Exams: Ensuring Your Loved Ones' Health

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  1. Physical Exam

  2. Family Friends Pets We Want All Our Loved Ones To Be Healthy

  3. Objectives • Explain why physical exams are important to the health of the pet. • Identify the “vital signs.” • Be able to perform a physical exam and monitor their own animal.

  4. Do any of you have pets? Have you ever gone to the veterinary clinic? What does a veterinarian do when you take your pet in for its yearly appointment?

  5. Why Is a Physical Exam Important? • Allows you to find signs of sickness that are not obvious • Helps you to determine the extent of the injury or illness

  6. Physical exam During a physical you look at all the body systems and how they are working • All body systems are related in function • If one doesn’t work properly it may limit what you can do medically • A veterinarian may pick up on something that the owners didn’t see or know was significant • Heart murmur • Growth problem • Skin problem • Parasites

  7. * See slide note First Thing: Check the History • Check the records of past visits • Get information from the owner • Listen carefully, ask questions

  8. * What is your over-all first impression? … of skin, muscle tone, movements, behavior, attitude?

  9. What about these animals?

  10. Or these?

  11. Physical Exam * Things a Veterinarian will need • Stethoscope • Otoscope • Thermometer • Pen light • Neuro hammer

  12. The first thing a vet may do is listen to your animal’s heart and lungs.

  13. * Next, the veterinarian may take the animal’s temperature.

  14. * After the heart, respiratory rates, and temperature are measured, the animal is examined from head to toe.

  15. Physical Exam * If the animal is sick, the veterinarian may take samples of blood, urine, or feces

  16. * The last thing the veterinarian may do is give the vaccinations.

  17. So what are the normal values for animals?

  18. Horse Resp: 10-14 bpm Temp: 99-100°F males lower HR: 28-40 bpm Cow Resp: 26-50 bpm Temp: 101-101.5°F HR: 48-84 bpm Sheep/goat Resp: 16-34 bpm Temp: 102.3°F HR: 70-80 bpm Cat Resp: 16-40 bpm Temp: 101.5°F HR: 120-140 bpm Dog Resp: 18-34 bpm Temp: 102°F HR:70-120 bpm Pig Resp: 32-58 bpm Temp: 102.5°F HR: 70-120 bpm * Normals See data file, “Normal Reference Values.doc”

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  21. You and your Veterinarians must know normal behavior

  22. Partnerships in Health: Monitoring your pet • Monitoring your pet can be helpful to your veterinarian when something happens at home. • What to look for: • Is respiration increased? • Has the heart rate gone up? • Is there swelling? • Does the animal have a fever? • Has the behavior changed? • Does the animal lack energy or seem depressed?

  23. Questions?

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