#necropsy

[poiisonous]

Pale torture blue 🖤

[markscherz]

Just a picture from the office today.

[talesfromtreatment]

Is it usual for a vet to not do a necropsy for an animal who died from an unknown neurological issue? My cat had to be put down a few weeks back. She had been suffering from neurological issues for approx a month including balance issues, personality changes, and occasional seizures. I didn't have the money to do a CT scan but the vet who first treated her remarked that she had seen similar symptoms with a brain lesion. When I had to put her to sleep I requested a necropsy but was told that getting into the skull to look at the brain would cause more damage and obscure anything already there. I sort of thought that if the owner asks for a necropsy to be done then it had to be performed.

Unless the neuro issues were caused by a giant tumor, a necropsy isn't going to tell you anything. You would need to submit the entire thing to a pathologist and even that might not gain you answers.

But also, they are correct. Getting into the skull cleanly is not something most clinics have the tools for and would cause damage to the tissues. When we submit the 'brain' for rabies suspects, we are actually submitting the entire *head*.

Necropsies are not required. The only time it is to be expected to be performed is if you specifically *pay* for one to be performed. The vet simply may not have the time to perform one during the work day, as even a basic necropsy just looking at the abdomen and thorax can take half an hour or more (opening, examining all the organs visually, sewing animal back up). That means paying the technicians overtime and not getting home when you expected.

And on necropsy you are looking for gross (visible to the naked eye) abnormalities. You might make an incision into the heart to examine the wall thickness, or the kidney to look at the renal pelvises, or the liver or spleen to check internal color and consistency but there's plenty of disease processes that you cannot just *see*. And most neuro things fall under 'cannot just *see*'.

[marywshelleys]

mica necesito saber tu opinión del quilombo AFA-rosario central-pincha

considero a verón un procer de la patria por cómo se rehúsa a dejarse amedrentar y se sigue parando de manos contra tapia.

todo lo del PDF es VERGONZOSO, falsifican documentos de manera totalmente alevosa y ni siquiera son lo suficientemente vivos como para chequear las propiedades del doc!! que los hayan sancionado igual es un berrinche porque no quisieron bajar la cabeza y chuparla como hacen todos en el futbol argentino, y espero que verón/estudiantes apelen. se puede armar un quilombo legal pero tal vez es lo que hace falta para bajar a tapia y toviggino de un hondazo, están ebrios de poder y no respetan a nada ni a nadie. con mi hermano posta queremos que estudiantes salga campeón de este torneo garcha para que les arda más. nos perjudicaría a nosotros pero no nos importa.

lo de central y di maría es penoso. quedaron pegados en un power play fallido de tapia solo por migajear un titulo de cartón. me daría vergüenza si fuera river en esa posición, y eso que soy consciente de que todos los grandes roban así que mi club no está históricamente impune. la imagen de los jugadores de estudiantes haciendo el pasillo de espaldas posta me llena de adrenalina, es gloriosa.

[festering-remains]

Necropsy - "White Perfect Fume" from Another World (1991)

[ocnwr]

Hey, gore enthusiasts, hi-

This may make no sense, but I'll ask

Is there anybody else out there who sees gore and the (dead) human body not (only) as a horror subject or as a medical thing but like- as a thing to talk and think about or to cut and touch and play with?

I mean- does anyone else feel the human body as work material? Does anyone else want to have dead bodies to do whatever you want? Explore them, make experiments, study them, make art with them, play with them, dance with them (even taste them, but not the central point), I don't know...

I'd just like to find someone who likes the human body but isn't a necrophile or a person who's interested only to help others (OF COURSE the second one is a totally super noble thing and I watch for it too, but not exactly what I'm talking about)

I mean I have a friend who might think very much like me, and that means A LOT, but I'd really like to know if there's more people like me or us out there, somewhere -c-

Anyway, bye...

[maiven-77]

[ask-a-vetblr]

A bit morbid, but I'm curious: When a human dies in suspicious circumstances, a forensics expert does an autopsy to look for any evidence of foul play. If an animal dies in suspicious circumstances, are there specialist vets who do the same kinds of checks, or does it fall to general practice vets, or do the human forensics experts handle animals too? (I'm sure the police aren't remotely as interested in investigating animal deaths as they are human deaths, but it must come up occasionally, right?)

Sueanoi here

Veterinary pathology is a thing, and we do Necropsy (like Autopsy but for animals) all the time. It's quite a specialized work. It was a mandatory lesson but I never had performed a necropsy on my own in my career.

I do use their service for Biopsy (same work but the sample came from an animal that is still alive) and other lab works.

Note: it is quite routine for Large animal vets that they would perform necropsy on culled animals so they can evaluate the health of the entire herd.