An intelligent veterinarian helps tackle a shortage of IV liquids for animal care by accepting remaining liquid donations of blood banks.
Although hospital regulations in Australia and probably in most countries dictate that the remains of intravenous liquid, also known as a saline solution, should be thrown for health standards, its use for animals has never been explored .
ABC News at Note that Dr. Felicity Cole often gives blood and sees how the saline solution used to rehydrate and reconstruct blood cells in donors is often not fully used at the time of the end of the procedure.
“I knew that the product (saline solution) was used and a large quantity was perhaps free or rejected,” she said.
His clinic in Newcastle experienced shortages of saline solution in the treatment of animals. It is often used to help pets maintain blood volume during anesthesia or during trauma operations. In July of last year, Dr. Cole wrote to the Red Australia Croix Lifeblood team to ask him if it was possible to recover this respect for a saline solution for his clinic.
“It was a great idea,” said Lifeblood spokesperson Jemma Falkenmire. “But there was certainly work to do, on our side, to obtain the approval to give this saline solution.”
Using a method called heat violin, the saline solution bags can be kept for future use with animals, and Bidound has now drawn up best practices for the procedure in case other facilities wish to do the same with the leftovers of Saline solution.
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The first box of saline solution arrived in August from last year, the average bag offering a cat 10 to 20 hours of liquid according to the procedure and the condition of the cat.
Better still, Lifeblood has made a real effort of Dr Cole’s simple demand and has now donated 5,000 bags of IV heat liquids at around 100 veterinary clinics across the Pays d’Australia.
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A veterinarian of the Australian zoo declared to ABC that the saline solution allowed them in certain cases to continue to provide vital treatments, including for Koalas, an endangered species which “is based on these vital fluids” .
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