Equipment to have:
Catheter Tray for Treatments:
I typically inject & catheterise the left jugular vein unless physical reason not to use it, or because of owner preference
Catheter Tray for Euthanasia:
Ann is a 2014 UCD, Dublin graduate who moved to Lexington, Kentucky for a 12 month equine surgical internship at Hagyard Equine Medical Institute in June 2014. This was followed by another 12 month equine internship at Fethard Equine Hospital in Tipperary, before returning to UCD for a 3 year ECVS large animal surgical residency programme. Ann completed her residency programme in July 2019, and a concurrent DVMS programme in September 2019, successfully defending her thesis “Impingement of dorsal spinous processes and their effect on performance in the Thoroughbred racehorse” in November 2019. Ann has just returned to Ireland after working as a solo equine surgeon for the last 9 months in Yorkshire.
Ann shares some really interesting clinical cases on her Instagram page – you can keep up to date with Ann and her cases here.
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