Elephant, Pisa Has a Medical Treatment for an Abscess with Our Wildlife Vets скачать в хорошем качестве

Elephant, Pisa Has a Medical Treatment for an Abscess with Our Wildlife Vets

Pisa recently needed medical attention from our wildlife vets, Dr. Peter Rogers and Dr. Ben Muller. Pisa developed an abscess on the skin underneath her, between her back legs. Dr. Rogers arrived to treat her and sedated her with standing sedation, while he took to draining the abscess and administering antibiotics and painkillers. Elephant Manager, Tigere stood by young Pisa's side throughout the procedure to keep an eye on her and keep her calm in case she started to wake up. Adine filmed the process for us, capturing the closeups of pus draining from the abscess. Please fast-forward if you're at all squeamish... Dr. Rogers then gave Pisa medicine called an antidote, to wake her from the sedation and she quickly took to moving off. The team kept watch over her as she rejoined her friends, Timisa and Kumbura. Two weeks later, we felt that the abscess had not drained sufficiently and was still swollen, and called in Dr. Muller since Dr. Rogers was busy with a rhino procedure. Dr. Muller similarly sedated Pisa and helped to further drain the abscess, making an incision to remove the pus, and inserting cloth swabs to soak up the fluid. He also boosted her with Vitamin E to support wound healing on a cellular level and other mineral and vitamin supplements, as well as more antibiotics. Altogether this did the trick and the abscess has healed well and Pisa has recovered beautifully. We are so grateful for the help of our wildlife vets and for our supporters at HERD Trust, as it is only through your donations that we are able to cover the immense cost of such medical and veterinary treatments for the elephants. If you would like to help us care for the elephants, please consider donating https://herd.org.za/donate/ or adopting an elephant https://herd.org.za/adopt-an-elephant/.