Informe final de pasantía en la Universidad Estatal San Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Hijo- Campus de Botucatu. Prolapso de oviducto por atascamiento de huevos y celotomia en tortuga morrocoy (Chelonoidis carbonaria).

Abstract

There was deposited a reptile Chelonoidis carbonaria in a consult at CEMPAS with a retention of eggs in the cavity celómica and prolapse cloacal, the owner provided it a vegetable diet, the turttle was coexisting with a feline and a canine in a wide space of land; the behavior of the patient was indicating need to spawn without obtaining ovoposición; in the general inspection, it is found physiological normal constants, and it was realized an X-ray photography confirming the presence of eggs clogged in the cavity celómica. The reptile is admitted to hospitalization to stabilize it for the surgical approach. Within the stabilization treatment, pain was treated with meloxicam, saline washes and antibiotic therapy every 24 hours after the surgery was scheduled, then it was established an anesthetic protocol in which it was used, induction with propofol, maintenance with isoflurane for 4 hours, monitoring the vital signs by means of a Doppler and electrocardiogram. The technique used was the celiotomy for extraction of clogged eggs and the amputation of the oviduct, at the moment of removing them it is possible to appreciate the rupture of an egg, which was extracted through aspirations with 5 ml syringes, using in turn washed with metronidazol to avoid bacterial infection.