Vet Times

Tag: paralysis

  • Informed consent: so much more than ‘sign there’

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    All too often, I hear colleagues (vets and nurses) asking a client to sign a consent form by saying “sign there”, without further discussion. A variant of this is the admitting nurse assuming the vet who advised the procedure has discussed consent with the owner. For consent to be valid it must be “informed” consent. Informed means if…

  • Check tear production in cases of facial paralysis

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    We recently saw a 10-year-old, West Highland white that had developed a middle ear infection and facial paralysis. Following treatment and further investigation, it turned out the poor little chap had concurrent hypothyroidism. Several weeks later, I noticed the eye the same side as the ear infection had developed a mucopurulent discharge and mild keratitis. On checking its Schirmer…