Tomcat Urethral Obstruction ("Blocked Cats")

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Tomcat Urethral Obstruction ("Blocked Cats")

Mr Shailen Jasani MA VetMB MRCVS DipACVECC

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Launch date: 31 Oct 2014

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Last updated: 15 Jun 2020

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Tomcat Urethral Obstruction ("Blocked Cats")

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Description

Tomcat urethral obstruction ("Blocked cats") is one of the true small animal emergencies with the potential to be fatal without intervention. The prognosis for survival from an acute episode of obstruction is extremely high with rational management. This comprehensive presentation discusses many of the talking points about the management of blocked cats and the additional course notes include further details such as drug doses and a description of the procedure for tomcat urethral catheterisation.

Objectives

To understand the potential clinical presentation of tomcats with urethral obstruction
To discover how to resuscitate and stabilise tomcats with urethral obstruction
To understand the need for fluid resuscitation in these patients
To understand how to approach clinically significant hyperkalaemia
To discover the relative pros and cons of performing cystocentesis in these patients
To appreciate the lack of indications for routine antibiotic use
To understand important aspects of the post-catheterisation management of these patients
To discover an overall rational approach to the management of "blocked cats"

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Mr Shailen Jasani MA VetMB MRCVS DipACVECC

Shailen Jasani MA VetMB MRCVS DipACVECC
Small Animal Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care (ECC) specialist

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Tomcat Urethral Obstruction ("Blocked Cats")