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<blockquote data-quote="Lucky_P" data-source="post: 743311" data-attributes="member: 12607"><p>I wouldn't give it SQ - I have seen some really nasty cellulitis/abscess cases from SQ and perivascular administration. IV is best, but IP(intraperitoneal - into the abdominal cavity) is OK - just slower. The oral gel formulations can be helpful, as well.</p><p>I've had 'bad' milk fever cows - flat out, and close to death - die during administration of IV calcium solutions - and not just when I was fresh out of school. Even if you're running it in slowly and monitoring the heartbeat, some of them are gonna kick off on you. If you treat enough of them, you're gonna lose some.</p><p></p><p>I tried to euthanize a non-milk fever cow with IV Ca++ one time, with no luck - I'd received a radio call from the clinic while I was out on rounds, about a heifer who'd been down for several days with obturator paralysis from a difficult calving, and the buzzards were eating her alive, and the owners wanted her put down. I didn't wear/carry a sidearm at the time, and as luck would have it, I didn't have any euthanasia solution on the truck. I figured that as much as they'd warned us in vet school about stopping the heart by running Ca++ in too fast, it ought to be a cinch to put this girl out of her misery if I just ran it in as fast as it'd go; doesn't work - 3 bottles of Ca/Mg IV in rapid succession did nothing. She never even rolled her eyes or missed a beat.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lucky_P, post: 743311, member: 12607"] I wouldn't give it SQ - I have seen some really nasty cellulitis/abscess cases from SQ and perivascular administration. IV is best, but IP(intraperitoneal - into the abdominal cavity) is OK - just slower. The oral gel formulations can be helpful, as well. I've had 'bad' milk fever cows - flat out, and close to death - die during administration of IV calcium solutions - and not just when I was fresh out of school. Even if you're running it in slowly and monitoring the heartbeat, some of them are gonna kick off on you. If you treat enough of them, you're gonna lose some. I tried to euthanize a non-milk fever cow with IV Ca++ one time, with no luck - I'd received a radio call from the clinic while I was out on rounds, about a heifer who'd been down for several days with obturator paralysis from a difficult calving, and the buzzards were eating her alive, and the owners wanted her put down. I didn't wear/carry a sidearm at the time, and as luck would have it, I didn't have any euthanasia solution on the truck. I figured that as much as they'd warned us in vet school about stopping the heart by running Ca++ in too fast, it ought to be a cinch to put this girl out of her misery if I just ran it in as fast as it'd go; doesn't work - 3 bottles of Ca/Mg IV in rapid succession did nothing. She never even rolled her eyes or missed a beat. [/QUOTE]
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