Had my first night of on call last night
I didn't even leave the clinic and someone called. Horse with a laceration on his shoulder. So I headed out there to deal with that. 🐴🐎 I think it went pretty well. I cleaned up the area and debrided some dead tissue away. And stitched up the small area of muscle to get rid of the dead space and then stapled and stitched the skin. I couldn't get it fully together with just the staples so I had to put two sutures in. I probably should have sutured it all, but oh well and my block was wearing off at that point. Overall they were happy with how it looked. I gave him some pain meds and antibiotics and will be out to check on him in 2 weeks to take staples and sutures out. Unless they call before then. They were super nice people and even offered to feed me dinner. I tried to take a picture and send it to my boss but I apparently didn't save it. So no picture of my handy work.