Veterinary

Bone Marrow collection and examination is indicated for an abundant of clinical cases.
Though a well described procedure in the literature, Veterinary practitioners are reluctant to perform it routinely.
The BIG can safely introduce it’s needle into the Bone Marrow, in 0.02 seconds.
The Bone Marrow aspiration, can then be performed within seconds to come.

The bone marrow collection, using the Vet BIG


The Bone Injection Gun (BIG),widely used in the field of human Emergency Medicine, is the Worlds 1st Automatic needle gun, which, by impact penetration
allows fast, safe, reliable access to patients circulation.
The Indication for using the BIG, in human medicine, is: A failure to achieve a reliable Intravenous access, both in Trauma and Cardiovascular crisis scenarios.

Courtesy of Dr. Offer Zeira Clinica Veterinaria Via Emilia, Italy

 In Veterinary Medicine, the Vet BIG is being used, mainly for Bone Marrow aspiration.

The Bone Marrow is a highly specialized and complex tissue, that gives rise to certain cell types, via stages of development, beginning as an undifferentiated cell precursors, and generate to maturation in a sequenced order. Impairment of any element of the Bone Marrow, has distinct and severe clinical manifestations, and lack of a functional Marrow is incompatible with life. Bone Marrow evaluation and/or analysis can be an imperative Diagnostic procedure in a variable of routine clinical investigations, and as such, it is commonly indicated.

 
Some of the Indications are:
  1.  Fever of Unknown Origin
  2. Suspected Hemoparasites: Systemic Ehrlichiosis, Leishmaniasis, certain Mycotics.
  3. Tumors staging: Mast Cell, Lymphomas, Carcinomas.
  4. Unexplained and persistent changes in One cell line, either Decrease: Anemia, Neutropenia, Thrombocytopenia. or Increase: Polycythemia ,Neutrophilia, Lymphocytosis, Thrombocytosis.
  5. Unexplained and persistent changes in more than one cell line, e.g.: Anemia and Thrombocytopenia, Anemia and Neutropenia.
  6. The presence of abnormal cells in circulation: Rubrocytosis in the absence of a responsive anemia; Immature cells of any cell line; Mast cells, Macrophages, Neoplastic, or unidentifiable cells.
  7. Hyperproteinemia or Monoclonal Gammopathies :suspected Multiple Myeloma, Feline Plasmacytoma,Ehrlichiosis,Leishmaniasis,Pyoderma,Lymphoma,Systemic Fungal Disease or Feline Infectious Peritonitis.
  8. Unexplained Hypercalcemia.

 

 

 

 

 

courtesy of Dr. G. Arad, Dr. R. Kestelman

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