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Buster comes a cropper!

Poor buster ended up on the wrong end of a rather large stick-2 foot long to be precise. He presented to a local vet after having a  stick removed from his throat. But things weren’t right. Buster was unwell.  

That’s where we stepped in.

 Using our endoscope and med rx - we found buster had  a large  gaping hole in his oesophageus which had become infected and full of food and grass. He had developed a chest infection from where the stick had penetrated his chest cavity.

So, we went looking for sticks and found none, but removed foreign matter from the large hole and stitched up his oesophageus.

To allow the  wound to heal it was important to  give his oesophageus a rest from  swallowing. We inserted a “peg” tube from inside his stomach to exit at his abdominal wall. This allowed us to feed buster for 8 days via a tube with semisolid food via a large syringe.

After that time the tube was removed. All the above procedures were only possible using an endoscope to view these lesions, help stitch them up and pass the peg tube. All these images you see here are copied from medrx onto disc and hence onto our web site.

We enjoyed doing the surgery and hopefully buster will appreciate it too.