Just Another Day At The Hospital

Tuesday we (my hospital) got a call from Dr. B asking if he could bring one of the Cheetahs from Safari West in and use our operating room. Ummmmmm, Of course! We all jumped at that opportunity! So after lunch Dr. B, 3 trainers and a 9 year old female cheetah come to play!!!! It was so cool. The Cheetah had been 'off' and Dr. B had palpated a mass in her abdomen. He then did an ultrasound guided tap and got pus out of the mass.

Prior to opening her up it was thought that maybe she had a pyometra (a really bad uterine infection).

I got to scrub in on the surgery and what we found was that one of her ovaries had turned into a giant pus-bag and the other was full of cysts. So we took them out. Sadly this girl will now not be used for breeding (which was her original propose) since Cheetahs are so endangered... but at least she is alive and not going to die of a nasty ovarian/uterine infection! Plus it was so amazing to work on such a beautiful and powerful animal!