Clinical Rotation Question on GSW

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Hey, any of you had your rotation where you learn to fix up humans who show up to your vet clinic with a gun shot wound (or knife wound)?

I was just thinking how every bad guy or misunderstood hero shows up at a vet to be patched up and I don't remember any courses on this in vet school so figured it must be something you practice in rotations.
 
StartingoverVet said:
Hey, any of you had your rotation where you learn to fix up humans who show up to your vet clinic with a gun shot wound (or knife wound)?

I was just thinking how every bad guy or misunderstood hero shows up at a vet to be patched up and I don't remember any courses on this in vet school so figured it must be something you practice in rotations.
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hmm now that you mention it, that seems to be missing from my rotation schedule. i'd better get in touch with the coordinator and let her know that we have a major gap in our learning!
 
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WildZoo said:
It seems that in post-apocalyptic scenarios, all the human docs have already been zombified, and only the vets are left. Maybe vets are just better trained in how not to get bitten.
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Zombies come into hospitals and primary care clinics first to seek alleviation of their pre-turn symptoms and many physicians no doubt volunteer to aid with the outbreak and get taken down. Thus, in the zombie apocalypse, vets are our only hope. Well, vets and @jdh71 if he ever leaves his bunker.
 
Mad Jack said:
Zombies come into hospitals and primary care clinics first to seek alleviation of their pre-turn symptoms and many physicians no doubt volunteer to aid with the outbreak and get taken down. Thus, in the zombie apocalypse, vets are our only hope. Well, vets and @jdh71 if he ever leaves his bunker.
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Life goal: obtain invitation to said bunker
I'm hoping the apocalypse doesn't occur until after I have acquired more useful skills, therefore increasing my chances of receiving an invitation
 
WildZoo said:
In many ways 😏
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Mad Jack said:
Zombies come into hospitals and primary care clinics first to seek alleviation of their pre-turn symptoms and many physicians no doubt volunteer to aid with the outbreak and get taken down. Thus, in the zombie apocalypse, vets are our only hope. Well, vets and @jdh71 if he ever leaves his bunker.
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I'll leave the bunker for hawt chicks (someone will need to take the responsibility to repopulate while the rest of you die appropriately for lack of preps) and BBQ brisket. If you aren't one or the other forget about it.

I will take out whoever needs it between the the hawt chick or the BBQ but I don't plan to be out long.
 
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Mad Jack said:
Zombies come into hospitals and primary care clinics first to seek alleviation of their pre-turn symptoms and many physicians no doubt volunteer to aid with the outbreak and get taken down. Thus, in the zombie apocalypse, vets are our only hope. Well, vets and @jdh71 if he ever leaves his bunker.
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@jdh71 already has a longstanding zombie apocalypse invite at our cabin on an island in remote northern MN. No way am I letting the last remaining MD leave the bunker.
 
Do we know if eating zombies turns people into them? Perhaps you can BBQ hawt zombie chicks but you just have to prepare them carefully like blowfish. Then jdh could have it all...

As to vets attending to GSWs, I think maybe as long as it was a competent vet that is used to applying medical knowledge to new situations on a regular basis, an educated guess on how to treat it properly would be enough to keep a person alive. I know the vets that I have worked for were presented with wounds/species etc that they had never dealt with before and managed to work out at least how to stabilize based off common sense and the ability to comprehend info from a book if they happened to find info there. You should do some research into how often this actually happens and the outcomes, SOV! 🙂
 
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Lupin21 said:
Do we know if eating zombies turns people into them? Perhaps you can BBQ hawt zombie chicks but you just have to prepare them carefully like blowfish. Then jdh could have it all...

As to vets attending to GSWs, I think maybe as long as it was a competent vet that is used to applying medical knowledge to new situations on a regular basis, an educated guess on how to treat it properly would be enough to keep a person alive. I know the vets that I have worked for were presented with wounds/species etc that they had never dealt with before and managed to work out at least how to stabilize based off common sense and the ability to comprehend info from a book if they happened to find info there. You should do some research into how often this actually happens and the outcomes, SOV! 🙂
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If I can fix bullet holes in a shihtzu, a person should be NBD. Other than the increased ickiness of all things human. I might puke in the surgical site.
 
StartingoverVet said:
This isn't the lounge...
every thread doesn't have to devolve into zombies....

I am talking real TV shows and movies here, not some mythical zombies.
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Ahem. You're asking about vets fixing GSWs in people and trying to say it's a serious question? C'mon now. That's not our job.

It's just penetrating trauma. You fix it like any trauma in the really big picture. Who cares what species it is.

Only GSW I've had to deal with, though, was on necropsy. In the abdomen, clipped the spleen, through the stomach, winged the duodenum enough to open it up, through two liver lobes, through the diaphragm, through two lung lobes, out the chest. Dog lived long enough to make it to surgery, where it arrested.
 
LetItSnow said:
Ahem. You're asking about vets fixing GSWs in people and trying to say it's a serious question? C'mon now. That's not our job.

It's just penetrating trauma. You fix it like any trauma in the really big picture. Who cares what species it is.

Only GSW I've had to deal with, though, was on necropsy. In the abdomen, clipped the spleen, through the stomach, winged the duodenum enough to open it up, through two liver lobes, through the diaphragm, through two lung lobes, out the chest. Dog lived long enough to make it to surgery, where it arrested.
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did you seriously think i was being serious? seriously?
 
I think we need to start talking to vet school curriculum committees, and persuade them of the necessity of a Zombie Apocalypse Preparedness for Veterinarians elective. Who's going to help me write the letters? :heckyeah:
 
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