Basic Avian Techniques - Wet Lab

• Leaders:  Rose Ann Fiskett and Johanna Appel (assisted by other conference speakers and MASAAV Executive Board to provide an instructor to student ratio of 1 to 5 or better)

• Three contact hours

• Bring your scrubs/smock and stethoscope. 

• Physical Restraint

• Physical Examination

• Grooming - Wing trimming

• Bacteriologic Sampling -

  • Crop

  • Choana

  • Cloaca

• Hematological Sampling -

  • Medial metatarsal vein

  • Cutaneous ulnar vein

  • Jugular vein 

• Injections -

  • Intravenous

  • Intramuscular

  • Intrasinus

  • Intratrachael

  • Subcutaneous

• Nasal Flush

• Gavage Feeding

• Intubation - Tracheal

• Bandaging

  • Pelvic Limb

    • Tape splint

    • Modified Robert-Jones

  • Pectoral Limb

    • Figure-of-Eight

    • Body Bandage