Horses and AF

[seasider18]

Epsom trainer Jim Boyle fits a sensor breast girth developed in America to his horses in training. It is featured on todays C4 Morning Line. It transmits nine heart and lung data results to a recorder.  A horses heart rate can go from 20 to 220 bpm as it bursts from the stalls. North America only has two equine cardiologists.

[countrygirl1]

Interesting stuff!  There is an equine cardiologist at Newmarket who is expert in AF, I think her name is Dr Celia Marr. I have read some interesting articles by her online. I don't have horses any longer but as a horse owner I often felt that a vet would be a good option for opinions on human health! I have treated my knee arthritis in the same way as equines (Hyaluronic acid injections given at the osteoarthritis clinic were first used in racehorses). The only problem is that they sometimes use quinidine for equine AF and that would be a bit drastic for us (side effects include instant death) oh dear!

[seasider18 in reply to countrygirl1]

It is surprising how they manage to keep some arthritic horses going and the benefit they make with wind operations. The best explanation I've had on AF was from a vet.

If only the NHS was as well organised as vets practices for diagnosis and treatment.

A friend who was married to a vet was put through a thorough fitness and diet regime by her and made a new man of him. In emergency she once operated on their young son. She got away with that but got suspended for six months after a complaint of her treatment of some hysterical woman's cat.

[Hidden in reply to countrygirl1]

and they might decide to kill you if you break a leg!

[seasider18 in reply to Hidden]

The injection is an easy way to go.

A horse called Palpitation won two races last month.

[Hidden in reply to seasider18]

Is that what's called "counter-intuitive"?

[seasider18 in reply to Hidden]

No, just horse sense. It had dropped to the lowest grade and probably realised that if it didn't win it was off to Pedigree Chum factory.

[PeterWh in reply to seasider18]

It was rejected because of repeated shockings!!

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