ABSTRACT
Basic surgical instrumentation for avian soft tissue surgery includes soft tissue retractors, microsurgical instrumentation, surgical loupes, and head-mounted lights. Hemostasis is fundamental during the surgical procedures. The indications, approach, and complications associated with soft tissue surgeries of the integumentary (digit constriction repair, feather cyst excision, cranial wound repair, sternal wound repair, uropygial gland excision), gastrointestinal (ingluviotomy, crop biopsy, crop burn repair, celiotomy, coelomic hernia and pseudohernia repair, proventriculotomy, ventriculotomy, enterotomy, intestinal resection and anastomosis, cloacoplasty, cloacopexy), respiratory (rhinolith removal, sinusotomy, tracheotomy, tracheal resection and anastomosis, tracheostomy, pneumonectomy) and reproductive (ovocentesis, ovariectomy, salpingohysterectomy, cesarean section, orchidectomy, vasectomy, phallectomy) systems are reviewed.
Subject(s)
Birds/surgery , Microsurgery/veterinary , Animals , Crop, Avian/injuries , Crop, Avian/surgery , Dermatologic Surgical Procedures/veterinary , Feathers/surgery , Gastrointestinal Tract/surgery , Genitalia/surgery , Microsurgery/instrumentation , Preoperative Care/veterinary , Proventriculus/surgery , Radiosurgery/veterinary , Respiratory System/surgery , Skull/surgery , Sternum/injuries , Sternum/surgery , Sutures/veterinary , Wound HealingABSTRACT
An 18-week-old umbrella cockatoo presented for continuous vocalization and one episode of regurgitation. The bird had been purchased 3 weeks before presentation and was the first large pet bird owned by this family. The cockatoo was fed a commercial baby bird formula that the owners were heating in the microwave before feeding. The owner had been instructed on formula feeding by the pet store personnel when the bird was purchased.
