Dear friends and classmates, I have passed the
>dreaded CPE and am passing a summary of the test to
>you to aid in your studies. Mississippi Nov 6-9, 2000.
>Day 1
>Food Animal
>A. Clinical procedures
> 1. Put halter on cow
> 2. Place Frick speculum and pass orogastric tube
> 3. Point to where the rumen gas cap is
> 4. Get urine and use dipstick
> 5. Tail bleed
> 6. Clean teats and do a CMT
> 7. Take milk samples for culture
>B. Palpate/OB
> 1. Papate (rectal) a Jersey for pregnancy and
>determine what the effects of PGF2a on the cow.
> 2. Metal cow dystocia
>C. Bovine case
> 1. Take Hx and PE on calf with a previous umbilical
>Sx. Main complaint is puritis and alopecia on dorsum.
> DDx and describe public health sig. of pen G meat
>residue (meat withold time)
>D. Food animal case
> 1. Ram with decreased libido and small testicles
>(DDx, PE, Hx, plan of action, other Dx test?)
> 2. (the afternoon group had) a ewe with mastitis
>(cold bag)
>Equine
>A. Dx lameness in horse (localize)
> 1. Arthritis in right front fetlock. Describe
>possible treatments ie legend, HA exc
>B. Clinical case
> 1. Acute excercise intolerance at intense
>excercise. Look at rads of caudal dorsal lung field
>and laryngeoscope pictures of larynx. DDx EIPH,
>laryngeal hemiplagia. Discuss tx, Dx, exc.
>C. Clinical procedures
> 1. Inject saline IM and IV
> 2. Age hores with teeth
> 3. Describe horse markings for Coggins papers
> 4. Float teeth
> 5. Pick up feet and clean
> 6. Look in mouth
>Day 2
>Small animal practice
>A. Pre-op PE (easy) on the dog you will anesthetize
>the following day.
>B. Clinical case
> 1. Chronic renal Disease dog. Hx, PE, discuss Dx,
>and possible Tx exc
>C. Clinical procedures
> 1. Write prescription using the PDR
> 2. Look at vaginal cytology of bitch and describe
>cells and pick which would indicate time to breed.
> 3. read short Hx and look at two ECG's. You must
>know normal QRS amplitude and PR intervals exc and
>determine heart rate and rythem. (not enough time)
>Radiology
>A. Film interpertation 8 stations
> 1. Bovine, osteoarthritis in the digits
> 2. Equine, 18 month old stallion with a
>fracture/draining tract/sequestrum/FB of MC III and
>possibly the splint bone.
> 3. Canine, puppy with cardiac thrill. Cardiac
>angiography with the catheter in the L ventrical with
>both the left and right ventricles and left atrium
>lighting up from contrast. (L to R shunt) VSD?
> 4. Canine, humeral Fx of the proximal humerus with
>callus formation. (poss. osteosarcoma)
> 5. Canine, thorax film, 3 yr old lassa with acute
>collapse (ruptured chorde tendonae, acute hemmorhage
>alveolar pattern, diffuse.
> 6. Equine, carpus with lameness for months.
>osteophytes on diffenent carpal bones.
>B. Film Faults
> 1. Fuzzy film, motion?
> 2. Double exposure on same film
> 3. Bend in film
> 4. Both left and right lead markers in chest field.
> 5. Cresant artifact on fish rad. Fingernail/bend
>film
>C. Produce a quality radiograph of a dog thorax given
>the approiate materials.
>Day 3
>Surgery (spay a bitch)
> 1. Pre surgical clip and prep
> 2. Sterile prep then drape
> 3. Scrub in and cut
> 4. Discharge instructions
>Anesthesia
> 1. Set up station
> 2. Pre-med
> 3. Place cephalic cath. and attach fluids
> 4. Induce (injectable)
> 5. Monitor
> 6. Discuss recovery
>Day 4
>Gross Necropsey (a dog from surgery)
> 1. Examine everything but take only one sample of
>the kidney for histopath.
>Clin. Path
> 1. Fecal float
> 2. Gram stain a slide and describe
> 3. UA dipstick and sediment
> 4. Blood smear technique
> 5. PCV TP
> 6. WBC estimate and differential
> 7. Describe colony morphology on a plate
> 8. Plate a single colony
>Cotochromes (morph dx, and ddx)
> 1. Bov. lingual ulcers
> 2. Bov. heart LSA in R atrium?
> 3. Bov
> 4. swine. rectal stricture (Salmonella typh)
> 5. Swine.
> 6. Canine. hard pad dz
> 7. canine. renal infarct
> 8. canine.