Any vets out there?

tallaght01

So, when I was back in Ireland over xmas, our cat was on aspirin!

My sis (who's his carer or whatever) was told by the vet that he has a murmur. So, i whipped out me stethoscope and had a general listen around his chest. I could hear normal heart sounds, insofar as they were normalish to me.

But I couldn't hear a murmur. Doing neonates made me very good at picking up little pissy murmurs, so I'm usually quite good at it. But couldn't hear a thing in Jack's heart.

So, does a cat heart murmur sound like a human one? Actually, thinking about it, most vets probably haven't heard any adult murmurs!

Ah, worth a try.

I would like to add that the vet was obviously onto something, as poor Jack was found dead under a neighbour's bush a few weeks later.

I refused to sign the death cert, as i couldn't rule out nefarious interference by Pablo, the boxer dog who lives up the road :P

DrIndy

I would have warfarinised him.

Was he in A.Fib? Did you do an ECG? Did he have LVH or a boot-shaped heart on chest x-ray? Did he have a slow rising pulse or a widened/narrowed pulse pressure?

tallaght01

Apparently warfarin is too risky when they keep jumping off walls!!!!!

With regard to his cardiac trace....he was pretty much flatlining the last time I saw him :P

sillymoo

HOCM????

tallaght01

Dilated Catiomyopathy I reckon.

GuanYin

Funny story. We regularly send obese patients to a large animal veterinary hospital in the state for MRIs because they don't fit in our human ones

We've had one suit filed for "loss of dignity".... I'm not sure how a 640lb woman can claim anyone else responsible for that.....

On topic...

tallaght01 wrote:

So, does a cat heart murmur sound like a human one? Actually, thinking about it, most vets probably haven't heard any adult murmurs!

afaik cat heart murmurs can be normal enough, well, not life threatening anyway. They do have them though but I dunno what they'd sound like, what is a cats resting hr?

Personally I hate cats so......

onetrueone

tallaght01 wrote: »

So, when I was back in Ireland over xmas, our cat was on aspirin!

I thought it was dangerous to give cats Aspirin?

http://www.cat-world.com.au/AspirinPoisoning.htm

DrIndy

pretty much the same symptoms as in human overdose.

Must have received a kitten dose though

RobFowl

I thought it was a banning offense to give personal medical advice !!

Perhaps the cats is simply sleeping (parrott like) :rolleyes:

ZorbaTehZ

DrIndy wrote: »

Must have received a kitten dose though

Sounds like a feliney to me, best get the gardaí on to it.