 Emergency Room Diagnosis: Tracheitis
Thx so much for your advice. As soon as I read your responses last night we elected to take Bailey to the emergency vet. Good thing we did! When my vet put the tube down her throat for the oxygen during her spay they expanded the cuff bulb to much in her trachea, resulting in "visible inflammation in the cervical tracheal region." The emercency vet shot her up with steriods and antiflammatory & put her on a antibiotic & a drug called Clavamax for the congestion. As soon as they did this at the hospital she was feeling better. I am glad there were no tares! That would have taken the problem to a whole other level. Either way this could have been deadly as her lungs slowly continued to fill with that mucus.
The emergency vet faxed all the info to my vet and told me my vet was definately at fault. They gave me a copy of the xrays and said that my vet needs to see the damage done.
__________________  Phoebe Brooke |