Kerala vets guide surgical treatment on Malaysian pup
Teleguided open-thorax procedure carried out on 8-week-old Miniature Pinscher in Penang
A team of veterinary cosmetic surgeons of the Kerala Veterinary and also Animal Sciences University (KVASU) has scripted a heartening tale during the ongoing lockdown by effectively leading an open-thorax surgical treatment for an eight-week-old pup in Malaysia with the help of live streaming teleguidance.
Max, a Miniature Pinscher pup that weighed just 800g, presented at the Penang Veterinary health center in Malaysia with a genetic condition. The young puppy was diagnosed with a rare by-birth anomaly of the significant capillary developing from the heart, the aorta, which had created a ring around the food pipeline– the oesophagus. The condition can just be fixed with a complicated open thoracic surgical procedure.
None of the vets in Malaysia were certain of doing the surgery, especially given that the more youthful age and smaller sized size of the pet posed an anaesthetic and surgical threat.
When the vets really felt the demand for a group of skilled specialists, Shibu Sulaiman, an alumni of KVASU who now functions in Malaysia as a primary specialist and also medical supervisor of the veterinary medical facility in Penang, recommended that they could approach his teachers in Kerala.
Dr. Sulaiman then approached S. Sooryadas, Assistant Professor, Department of Surgery at KVASU’s College of Veterinary and Animal Science at Pookode. Once the formal treatments were completed the technical procedures were established for interacting and assisting with the surgeons in Malaysia via on the internet real-time streaming.
The surgeons in Malaysia comprising Dr. Sulaiman, Shivakumar Singh, Thai I Ling and Amal Bhaskar worked as the ears as well as hands of the specialists of KVASU during the surgical treatment as well as acted as per the teleguidance provided throughout the treatment.
Dr. Sooryadas led a three member group that directed the surgical treatment.
The animal was potentially the tiniest pup in the globe to have gone through an open thorax surgery through live streaming as well as teleguidance for improvement of a vascular ring anomaly, Dr. Sooryadas stated after the surgical procedure.
The various other participants of the KVASU group were N.S. Jinesh Kumar, Assistant Professor, Department of Surgery and also Gisha G. Nair, Senior Resident. It took five hrs for the whole treatment and the problem of the animal was rather acceptable now, Dr. Sooryadas included.