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    Fwd: Re: [RC] Perspective from a Volunteer at Fort Valley - Linda Flemmer


     
    > --- "Hopkins, Lorretta J." <lhopkins@xxxxxxx> wrote:
    > > Greetings to all riders/readers.  SNIP
    > 
    > Loretta,
    > 
    > It's great to hear that you had such a great time. 
    > I
    > missed Ft Valley for the first time in years - wish
    > I
    > had been there!  Scribing for the vet is a great
    > experience - especially if you get to work with
    > someone who likes to talk & explain what they are
    > seeing.
    > 
    > > What I learned this year that I had not known for
    > > the past seven years I've
    > > been taking horse pulses - is
    > > that my stethoscope has an on/off switch.
    > 
    > You're "kind of right".  You sound as though you
    > have
    > a sprague-rappaort style 'scope with the revolving
    > head.  As you flip the head, you have the opportnity
    > to listen with either a diaphragm or a bell to pick
    > up
    > different types of heart sounds.  I use this to
    > auscultate for heart murmurs in children.  The
    > diaphragm side (commonly used for P&R's) has the fat
    > plastic disk.  The bell side is a bit like a dixie
    > cup
    > used to pick up lower frequency sounds.  Not all
    > sprague-rappaport 'scopes are set up with both the
    > bell & diaphragm, so it may not be obvious.
    > 
    > The head has to be set so that you are hearing thru
    > the correct pick up!  Nothing so frustrating as
    > KNOWING it should work & it doesn't in the stress &
    > activity of the P&R box.
    > 
    > I loved the time that I was told by a P&R person to
    > see the vet IMMEDIATELY!!!  As a front runner, I was
    > over stressing my horse.  I was the first horse this
    > person had done a P&R for.  She read my horse as
    > 104! 
    > In reality, he was 52.  She counted "lub dub" as 2
    > beats.  I thought it was funny but I think she was
    > mortified!
    > 
    > Thanks for volunteering at the Ft. Valley.
    > 
    > Linda
    > Blue Wolf Ranch
    > West Virginia
    
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