Am I dealing with well intentioned idiots or am I ignorant.

[Sev]

Re: Am I dealing with well intentioned idiots or am I ignora

Hi Sev,

Yep, I do very much understand the limited resources in certain areas but there still needs to be minimum standards and BP monitoring is one of them.

Please ask your vet if the BP will be constantly monitored by a tech. BP machines cost as little at $900 (Doppler) and there is simply no excuse for any practitioner to not at least monitor the BP of any patient under anesthesia.

Dental x-rays can be overlooked but not BP monitoring.

That's what the use. A pulseoximeter. Just got off the phone with them.

I posted Kitty's blood work in another thread from when I first found out he was diabetic and the one from the new vet several days ago.
Its pretty impressive what a change of diet can do. From what I understand all his stats have come back into the normal ranges.

 

[Kathy and Kitty]

Re: Am I dealing with well intentioned idiots or am I ignora

Kathy - add to your list NO CONVENIA.

I just had to deal with another death from that drug.

Keep in mind that it stays in the body for over 2 MONTHS, not 2 weeks.

Dr. Lisa,

I posted in the Lantus group a question about this. Before I came to this site and heard about Convenia warnings, Kitty had received the drug. He had no adverse reaction to it. If a cat is known to tolerate it, is the drug okay, or do you feel it should be avoided under all circumstances?

Thanks!

 

[Sev]

Re: Am I dealing with well intentioned idiots or am I ignora

Kathy - add to your list NO CONVENIA.

I just had to deal with another death from that drug.

Keep in mind that it stays in the body for over 2 MONTHS, not 2 weeks.

Dr. Lisa,

I posted in the Lantus group a question about this. Before I came to this site and heard about Convenia warnings, Kitty had received the drug. He had no adverse reaction to it. If a cat is known to tolerate it, is the drug okay, or do you feel it should be avoided under all circumstances?

Thanks!

2 Kitty's in the same state.

 

[Lisa dvm]

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That's what the use. A pulseoximeter. Just got off the phone with them.

Pulse ox does not measure BP. Did you ask them about blood pressure and what they use to measure it? Doppler? Oscillometric?

 

[Lisa dvm]

Re: Am I dealing with well intentioned idiots or am I ignora

If a cat is known to tolerate it, is the drug okay, or do you feel it should be avoided under all circumstances?

Just because they "tolerated" it once, does not guarantee that they will "tolerate" it again.

I say "tolerate" because you have no idea if/what damage was done at the cellular level. By the time adverse effects show up, the body is severely injured....but there are plenty of adverse reactions that fly under the radar.

You would have to hold a gun to my head to make me inject Convenia into any of my cats. There are very few instances when this drug should ever be used.

 

[Sev]

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That's what the use. A pulseoximeter. Just got off the phone with them.

Pulse ox does not measure BP. Did you ask them about blood pressure and what they use to measure it? Doppler? Oscillometric?

They said they measured BP. However I am unfamiliar with the medical equipment needed to ask the appropriate questions.

 

[Sev]

Re: Am I dealing with well intentioned idiots or am I ignora

I figured I would add this.
I was just looking at the oral pain killer the other vet prescribed for Blue after getting spade. It was Metacam. Glad I decided not to use it all on her.

 

[Hillary & Maui (GA)]

Re: Am I dealing with well intentioned idiots or am I ignora

oh no - not metacam - here is an old discussion on that topic:

http://www.felinediabetes.com/phorum5/r ... ?8,1867651

 

[Sev]

Re: Am I dealing with well intentioned idiots or am I ignora

Hmmmm.
Good move on my part.

 

[Carol-Charlie]

Re: Am I dealing with well intentioned idiots or am I ignora

I love it when a "Do it my way" vet gets dumped for a "Lets work together on this" vet.... That's how I found my wonderful clinic.... and Dr. McCabe... then.... I interact with the other vets in the clinic... and they are ALL wonderful..... One only needs to locate them and then spread the word...