Informe final de pasantía profesional en la Clínica Equina SAS. Tétano en yegua criolla colombiana con herida abierta en miembro posterior derecho.

Abstract

In this case the pathology of a mare Colombian creole 13-year-old described, the color is brown, and the horse's name is Municion Del Juncal, which belongs to the farm La Colombia in Ténjo Cundinamarca. He joined the SAS Equine Clinic since the previous day in the evening hours. They found her with an open wound on the right posterior limb metatarsal compromising the extensor; they did not find the object with which the horse was wound. There is no report about that. The initial clinical exam the patient presented a body condition of 4/5, with a weight: 413 kg, mucous membranes were congested and with a time 3 sec capillary filling, a respiratory rate of 28 rpm, a heart rate of 60 lpm, it was motility normal 4 quadrants, with a 42% hematocrit and plasma proteins of 7 g/dl. We proceeded to make healing with iodine solution and decided to enter it into the operating room because it damage to the extensor tendons, suturing tissue was done and allowed to splint. During wound recovery equine presented a nervous symptom, prolapse of the third eyelid and muscle stiffness; they began to suspect that possibly be a case of tetanus because the owner said that vaccinating the horse but there is no record of vaccination but not any immunization registry is evidence.