Cardiology

At NDSR we have invested in a potentially life-saving defibrillator for patients at our practice. We have recently taken delivery of the advanced defibrillator unit, which can help provide the quickest possible response to critical events around the hospital. Designed primarily to ‘kick start’ the heart in instances of cardiac arrest during open thoracic surgery,…

Feline anaemia is a common reason for referral to our internal medicine service. Due to the lack of easily accessible blood banking for cats in the UK, providing transfusions in an emergency situation can be problematic. Often we have to rely on staff cats and donor lists. Due to the high number of cats requiring…

Cardiology ‘The re-birth of the relevance of murmur intensity’ A heart murmur is an abnormal heart sound that indicates a degree of turbulence to the usually laminar blood flow in the heart. It can be physiological in athletic animals, due to congenital cardiac conditions in young patients or caused by non-cardiac condition affecting the way…

Cardiology Hepatojugular Reflux‘A must do in the investigation of ascites’ Ascites is the abnormal accumulation of fluid in the peritoneal cavity. There are multiple causes for this condition and investigation of such cases is therefore complex. Fluid can accumulate in the peritoneal cavity as a result of haemorrhage, infection/inflammation or progressive extravasation from the vascular…