Hatfield
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There is a post about the Microbiome research also being conducted at the University of Delaware. New Bolton and U of D are going to converge their research. What will be amazing is the benefit for both humans and animals.
I had no idea any of this research was going on until last Monday, 1/11/16, when I went up to New Bolton and waited for Knox's necropsy to be completed. The kindness that was shown to me was overwhelming, from the women at the front desk to the vets that came out to offer their condolences as I sat there.
Knox was well known to the clinicians and he was discussed in Grand Rounds that day. I had no idea how he had impacted so many of those treating him to the extent that he did. He taught so many vet students, residents and attendings about managing colic and both the medical and surgical aspects of treatment.
Since I pulled out all the stops trying to keep him alive and happy, they were able to try some experimental and uncommon treatments that actually worked. I think my years of critical care nursing played a huge part, amongst other things obviously, in trying to do whatever was necessary.
In human emergency medicine, we don't just stop a code after giving the first two tiers of drugs if there is any chance of saving the person so that they could continue to enjoy a quality of life. We try everything in our "power" to save the person and sometimes we were successful, sometimes not. We never just gave up until it was evident that there was nothing more we could do.
That is good to hear that some good has come from the loss of your beloved horse.
I don't know much about horses at all and had never heard of colic. I looked it up and I see where it can encompass a variety of different abdominal issues.
Its sad that horses have this issue.
If you don't mind me asking did they ever figure out what may have been causing his particular condition? If its too complicated to explain that's ok.