cleverever

What, in your opinion, is the most misrepresented and misremembered event in the last 200 years?

Medical advice question: how many pocket pets have you had to recover after limb amputations?

I've been part of 3, one on a rat, one on a Guinea pig, one on a rabbit, and they all failed to thrive, continued to get infected, and were euthanized no later than 3 months after the initial surgery. Granted I was not part of the actual recovery care and I'm not even in animal medicine anymore but it's the only surgery that's had what I would call a 0% success rate and it still kinda haunts me. Lump removals, cystoscopies, OHEs and neuters, no problem. But amputations were just nightmares with aftercare.

But anyway my question is specifically how do you care for those animals during actual recovery.

I appreciate your response. Do you provide supportive nutrition like critical care? Do you do NSAID only pain management or combine it with an opioid for your post op pain? How do you prevent stasis if you do use opioids? Do you do prophylactic appetite stimulants?

I'm wondering if it wasnt bone infection. We didn't go back in and get a culture on these guys we just kept trying medical management so that would make sense.