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elchivito · #12 02-24-2011, 01:26 PM

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Originally Posted by aklim

True but that only applies to certain treatments. If the animal has to be anesthetized, I don't know that they can do it at home. My wife can sew lacerations and has done it too. However, whether I want her to get involved with knocking out an animal is a different story. That is the trick of the sewing up of lacerations. You cannot tell the dog to "bite on a bullet" and hold still. Say you use lidocaine to numb the site, the dog will still wiggle. Also, lidocaine is one of the drugs that is used to jump start a heart. Might not be good if you simply stick it in. Beyond that, the sewing is easy. You can get a seamstress to sew it up after you get past that tricky part.

My vet has done emergency anaesthesia on large animals here a couple of times. It's risky and I'd only do it in a life threatening situation. I don't know about pets though. You can't take a downed show horse to the dr.'s office.
Stitching's easy. I normally do my own for small to medium cuts. Sub-Q lidocaine has little effect on heartrate, IM will affect it greatly. Normally I don't even stitch a 1 inch cut. If there's no arterial bleeding, I wash it out first with peroxide, then 7% iodine, wait till bleeding gets to the sticky stage, and glue it shut with superglue gel or NuSkin, same thing. Then I paint another layer of glue over the cut. A shot of long acting antibiotic and that's it. I've had lots of secondary infections from stitches, none when I use superglue and virtually no scarring.