Got curious about torsion in horses while reading All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot. The book takes place in the 1930s, but when I did a quick search it seems it is as deadly now.
ETA: By veterinary medicine I mean all treatments, including surgery, not just drugs.
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Lost a mare to this recently. It happened so quickly. She was fine the night before but in the morning she had bolted through a fence and ran into the barn. I watched her on camera from work lie down, seize violently and die while my poor teen son tried to help her. The necropsy showed a twisted and perforated bowel. She was 2 weeks post-partum and this is a common complication.
Her baby got a nurse mare the next day and is doing great. It was so awful though.
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