Tuesday 5/6

Well, my dog that I was in charge of today is still living!  He was stubborn in that he didn't want to go where we wanted him to but we were able to get everything done with him that we needed to.  We actually ended up putting a Holter monitor on him.  This records the electrical activity of his heart for a full 24 hours.  Tomorrow afternoon, the owners will send the monitor back to us at cardio and the monitor will be sent out for analysis.  Here is a picture of a dog with a Holter monitor on:

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The dog came in around 1130 AM and we didn't send them on their way until 430PM and I was busy the whole time the dog was there, between talking with the owner, taking a blood pressure, doing paperwork, helping put the Holter monitor on, etc. Being that busy made the day fly by which was nice! 

Now tonight, I had to read an article for our "journal rounds" tomorrow.  Each of us students had to pick a research article involving cardiology and get ready to discuss it for tomorrow.  Mine is entitled "R-R interval variations influence the degree of mitral regurgitation in dogs with myxomatous mitral valve disease."  Not exactly the most fascinating reading I have done in my life but it could be worse!