Equine Medicine

What this page covers

This unit page collects equine medicine material made by the community. Colic is the biggest theme. The Equine Colic quiz asks what to do when a horse has a high heart rate, gastric dilation on ultrasound or reflux from the nose. Others cover the epidemiology of colic, surgical management and chronic colic with weight loss.

Lameness, foals, metabolic disease, infectious disease, anaemia, respiratory and urinary problems and sport medicine also appear.

Where to start

If colic is new to you, begin with the Horse Colic quiz. It covers clinical signs such as biting at the side and kicking at the abdomen, and checks like capillary refill time. Then move to the Equine Colic quiz, which is more about decisions.

For a wider look, try the Equine Health Quiz and the Signs of Health in horses quiz. For passports and microchips, try the Equine Passports flashcards and then the Equine Passports and Microchipping quiz.

Using maps and quizzes together

Read a mind map first to see how a disease fits together. The Equine Metabolic Syndrome map lists clinical appearance, such as an obese pony, a cresty neck and regional fat. The Equine hyperlipaemia map lists clinical signs and risk factors. Then take a quiz on the same topic and note what you missed.

Other maps cover Equine Viral Arteritis, causes of equine facial swelling and limb deformities in foals. There are also maps on lameness stations for clinical practical exams.

Flashcards for recall

The flashcard decks are short and focused. Use them for the causes of lameness, subsolar abscesses, endotoxaemia, foal diarrhoea, parasite control and poisonous plants. The Equine Grass sickness slides add detail on a disease whose cause is still unknown.

Where this unit sits

This unit belongs to the strand Species and Production Animal Medicine, within the subject Veterinary medicine. It is the horse-focused part of that strand.

Choose one topic today, take its quiz, then write your own flashcards for the questions that tripped you up.