Yesterday was my first Natural Hystory of Vertibrit class and we went into the feild to collect herps. One of the snakes we found had what looked like an inverted colon which they will do when afraid sometime, but a closer look reveild that this poor little northern water snake had been hit by a weed waker and in addition to a few small cuts along it's body was one very deep cut that had herniated. I asked the prof to let me take it because I know the basics of repairing such tramas, but now, as I sit in my dorm with my illegal patient I find myself wanting to conferm my memories of how this sort of this is repaired and also to determin if extra work is needed on the protuding organ (which is now clean and coverd with ointment in hops of reducing swelling). I think I need to make an insition and push the organ back in and then use liquid stitches or super-glue to close it up, but I am not positive I even know what organ I am dealing with . I can't find a single photo reference of internal snake anatomy, not even of one of the species built differently from my little freind here. I also can't find instruction on-line >_< why must it have been so long ago that I helped fix the others. I'm probubly just nerotic, but if the gut has streched funny I sure would like to fix THAT before I close up this guy... oh and on top of all this, it didn't shed it's right eye scail properly so it's blind on one side
Anyone have any tips or know any resorces? Thanks
Anyone have any tips or know any resorces? Thanks