INTAS POLIVET
Open Access
  • Year: 2011
  • Volume: 12
  • Issue: 2

Medicinal Management of Electric Shock in a Monkey (Rhesus macaque)

  • Author:
  • M.K. Srivastava, Ashish Srivastava, S. Purohit2
  • Total Page Count: 2
  • Page Number: 189 to 190

2Department of Surgery, College of Veterinary Science and Animal Husbandry, Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Veterinary University and Gau-Anusandhan Sansthan, Mathura-281 001 (Uttar Pradesh)

Department of Medicine, College of Veterinary Science and Animal Husbandry, Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Veterinary University and Gau-Anusandhan Sansthan, Mathura-281 001 (Uttar Pradesh)

Online published on 24 January, 2012.

Abstract

Electric shock and burn in a monkey was managed effectively with adequate fluid therapy and life saving drugs. The respiratory distress and pulmonary edema was managed using deriphylline and frusemide, respectively. Eventless recovery was observed under umbrella of antiseptic dressing and antibiotic therapy.

Keywords

Burn, electric shock, emergency, monkey