How do veterinary surgeons operate on turtles and tortoises? Where do they make the incisions?
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The first practice I worked at we did some turtle surgery. We had a tortoise that ate a thumb tack and was stuck in the intestine. You cut 3 sides of a square on the plastron (bottom of the shell). It makes a hinged flap. Once done, we used epoxy to glue the shell back together. We got it from the bike shop next door. It takes 2 years for the plastron to heal. Tortoise did great! Chelonians and reptiles are really easy to intubate but a bitch to monitor as they can just not breath for ages. Stupid anaerobic respiration.
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