Tag: mucous membrane

  • Delaying investigations can sometimes be beneficial

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    I was called out around 11pm recently to a case of acute onset dyspnoea in a seven-year-old Siamese cat (yes, we do our own out-of-hours work – how weird is that?) Even with my ageing ears, I felt I could hear a crackling over the lung fields and a cardiac arrhythmia. Its mucous membrane colour was a poor grey…