A 24-year-old red-eared slider has a swollen fractured toe. What to do? Pt 2/2
Channel: Dr David Sing
Date: 2018-08-02

1 Aug 2018.

3 days of antibiotics and painkillers after amputation of a swollen fractured toe. Two nylon sutures close up the wound. Goes home today.

Isoflurane gas anaesthesia by mask must be performed carefully as the red-eared slider does not display clear anaesthetic signs as in the dog and cat. Yet it is not possible to amputate the toe and stitch up the wound without anaesthesia.

The slider had a few seconds of full anaesthesia permitting surgery.