The great job done by our #vetnurses
Lynwood Vets- 12 days of Christmas
❄️⛄To all our friends, clients and patients- Merry Christmas from all of us at Lynwood vets! 🎄🧑🎄🦌
🪝 Case of the Week! 🪝
Scully came in to our Wareham branch having eaten a fish on the beach, which may or may not have had a fishing wire in it! 🐟
Scully was transferred across to our Wimborne Hospital for further investigations. After a few radiographs were taken by our Vet, Duncan, we could see that there was a fish hook in Scully's stomach! 😱
Duncan moved him to theatre where he hoped he would be able to remove the fish hook endoscopically as it was still in his stomach - and he did! Check out the video showing how Duncan removed it! 🪝🐟
Scully was able to go home the same day as we did not need to do an invasive surgery, and he is back to his playful self! 💚🐾
🐾 CPR Training 🐾
Every three months, our nurses have essential CPR training to ensure they are always prepared if something dreadful were to happen. 💚
Here are Bex RVN and Izzy SVN showing how we remember the CPR rhythm 🐾💚
💚 Veterinary Nurse Awareness Month Day 22 💚
One of the roles of a Registered Veterinary Nurse is providing emergency and critical treatment to patients, including CPR or cardiopulmonary resuscitation. 🚨
All veterinary nurses are trained in how to perform effective chest compressions in case of a patient suffering from a cardiopulmonary arrest. 🐾
The veterinary teams regularly run training sessions in practice to ensure all members of the team keep their skills up to date. 🏥
In order to run a cardiopulmonary arrest drill, each member of the team takes up a role to provide all areas of basic and advanced life support. These include:
🚨 A team leader - this can be a vet or a registered veterinary nurse
🚨 Compressors - these are the people who will perform chest compressions and the role will rotate, as this job is very tiring!
🚨 A ventilator - this person breathes for the patient, normally via an endotracheal tube
🚨 An assistant or ‘runner’ - this person attaches monitoring equipment as well as drawing up and administering medications
🚨 A scribe and timekeeper - to record all events, such as how long each compressor has been performing chest compressions and the medications administered
Here’s Alice RVN, demonstrating chest compressions on ‘CasPeR’ the canine CPR manikin (not to be confused with a fashion mannequin that you would find in the shops)...💚
💚 Veterinary Nurse Awareness Month Day 20 💚
One of the roles of a Registered Veterinary Nurse is placing an Intravenous Catheter 🩺
Having intravenous access is important in all our patients. A cannula is placed inside the vein to allow access for fluid therapy, medication, blood products, nutrition, chemotherapy, and more. 💚
Having intravenous access is incredibly important in an emergency as it is the quickest way to deliver emergency drugs into the blood stream and straight to the heart. If an emergency is on its way an RVN will prepare equipment and place a cannula as soon as the patient arrives. 🐾
RVNs will place IV cannulas ahead of all surgical procedures. We will check cannulas regularly, keep them patent throughout the day and replace them if/when necessary. We will then remove them once are patients are fully recovered and ready to go home. 💚
In this video, Erin RVN shows the steps of correctly placing an intravenous catheter. 🐾
💚 Veterinary Nurse Awareness Month Day 14 continued… 💚
Sometimes, certain wound care involves regular bandaging 🩹
Our Registered Veterinary Nurses are required to do many different kinds of bandaging depending on the wound, whether that is a paw pad injury or in some cases, broken legs! 🐾
A bandage will consist of many layers. Firstly, after the wound has been cleaned, a Registered Veterinary Nurse will apply an aseptic dressing. They then put cotton wool in between the patients toes to stop any rubbing and sweating. A layer of SoftBan is applied as a comfort layer, then k-band for the conforming layer. The last layer would be vetwrap for the protective layer. 🩹🐾💚
Here is Sadie RVN bandaging her cat, Meeko. Meeko is a star as not many cats would let you bandage them. 🐱🐾💚
💚 Veterinary Nurse Awareness Month Day 8 💚
One of the roles of a Registered Veterinary Nurse is to give nutrition and weight management advice 🐾
Gisela RVN has a particular interest in nutrition and weight management. 💚
Sadly pet obesity has been on the rise since the pandemic, and this can lead to diabetes, arthritis, and heart issues. 🐶
We have been running Slimpals consults to support our clients through their pets weight loss journey. Our Veterinary nurses body condition score your pets, discuss diet, exercise and take measurements to enable them to work out an individually tailored weight management plan for each patient. 🐾
Gisela RVN explains more in this video 💚
💚 Veterinary Nurse Awareness Month Day 7 💚
One of the roles of a Registered Veterinary Nurse is Radiography, or taking X Rays 🩻
Radiography is an extremely useful aid in the diagnosis of many diseases and conditions commonly seen in small animal practice from dental issues to fractured limbs. 🩻
Nurses play a very active role in radiography, whether that be positioning the patient to taking the x rays and developing the exposed films 💚
Here is Mairin RVN positioning a patient ready for radiographs to be taken 🐾
💚 Veterinary Nurse Awareness Month Day 5 💚
One of the roles of a Registered Veterinary Nurse is maintaining and cleaning the clinical areas and equipment 🩺
Ensuring that clinical areas remain clean and maintaining equipment is an important job that all our Veterinary nurses ensure is done to a high standard 🔬
Here is Sarra RVN showing just some of the many pieces of equipment and clinical areas our nurses use and maintain to make sure we are able to provide the best care for your pets 🐾💚
💚 Veterinary Nurse Awareness Month Day 1 💚
One of the roles of a Registered Veterinary Nurse is dentistry. 🦷
We can give you advice on preventative dental health care, such as tooth brushing and dental products, and can also play a big role in any dental procedure. RVN's can take dental x-rays, conduct tooth assessments and even clean teeth. 🐾
Here is RVN Leanne scaling and polishing some teeth and restoring these pearly whites! 😍🦷💚
🐾 Dog Theft Awareness Day 🐾
There has unfortunately been an increase in dog thefts around the country so we thought it was important to address this on Dog Theft Awareness Day.
Watch our short video for tips ⬇
🦸♀️ Happy International Women's Day 🦸♀️
We are so lucky to have such an incredible group of women working with us here at Lynwood and think they all should be celebrated every single day 😍
Thank you for everything 🐾💚
How to introduce tooth brushing to your dog 🐾
🎆 We are approaching firework season again! 🎆
Keep these tips in mind when it comes to the New Years Eve Fireworks next weekend! 🎆
🏆 Today we are saying a massive well done to our lovely receptionist, Laura, who today donated 16 INCHES of hair to The Little Princess Trust 🏆
The Little Princess Trust is a fantastic charity who provide wigs to children with cancer to restore their confidence and identity.
If you would like to donate to Laura's big chop, you can do so by following this link https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/Laura-Carter51 - any donation will help these children in need. ❤️
😸 Keep those feline fangs happy this Halloween 😸
RVN Sadie and Meeko have made this fantastic video on how to introduce regular teeth brushing to your cats routine, to ensure their fangs are sparkling for Halloween 🎃😸
