This rosy boa was given to me, it had retained ova and possibly babies, animal was going to be euthanized, but I offered to try and get the babies out and attempt to save her life. She was hibernated, which was probably not the best idea, and I fed her once trying to bulk her up before Surgery. We induced her with hydromorphone, acepromazine and isoflurane, I intubated and placed directly on a ventilator. We placed a doppler on her heart and could hear the heart beat throughout surgery. She was placed on heat support. The dystocia was very weird, there were three ectopic babies, basically attached to nothing, just free floating in the abdomen. A surgery that should have been about an hour, took four and a half hours. She recovered within an hour an went home on antibiotics and I also gave her some fluids. She did die three days later due to complications. This was a very unusual and frustrating case, but a lot was learned.
Great thanks to all involved, surgery was performed at www.vshsd.com by Dr Aiken and Dr Ganz, and thanks to Marcy for helping with the anesthesia
Here are the pics, they are not the best as I left my camera at home... IDIOT!!
Also, Bushviper, the surgeon that did this is keen to have a look at the eagle that has th busted legs... just needs the x rays