Pictures of Animals Getting CT Scans Against their Will: A Thread

One of the most difficult parts of veterinary medicine is the fact that your patients can’t directly communicate. Oftentimes, issues go unnoticed simply because the animal masks things like pain. Luckily, the vet immediately knew this hedgehog had something wrong, because it kept exploding into a bunch of golden rings.

Free my homie sonic. He done nothing wrong.

It's also the only one that's an Xray instead of a CT

MOISTURISE ME

"That's it I'm taping you down!"

The bdsm community is leaking.

No pun intended btw.

Taped animals were the most interesting of the set.

they made that mfer 2-dimensional

why are they MRI-ing a filet? :3

I love how it's just taped down with like masking tape lol

Poor Blaze doing his checkup 🤭

Tiny little hedgehog voice: I've been a bad boy. A bad bad boy.

(Might be a girl having trouble getting my phone to load anymore than a thumbnail worth of pixels)

i got a CT scan once and am a dumbass so the doctors and technicians might as well have been a superintelligent race

however instead of a treat i got a giant medical bill >:(

Mine are the snake and the taped bird

That one made me laugh as well. I never knew they had such... unflattering (yet flat!) bodies.

No shit, I once had the chance to accompany a patient to an large aninmal hospital for an MRI.

The problem: It was so far away that the patient needed to be airlifted. Which was far beyond the capacity of regular HEMS. So they called in the military and they send a fucking CH-53 cargo helicopter. These things are huge and loud. But cool.

That was one interesting ride. Somewhat embarrassing for the patient (who was not in on weight level due to simply eating too much - patient had a massive and life altering orphan hormonal disease) but patient kept somewhat good spirits and the volunteer fire brigade did a good job blocking the view.

Nowadays human medicine has improved - you can now simply use an open MRI with specialised gurneys. They usually can take more than 400kg, sometimes 500kg.

I had a patient tell me he had to go to a zoo for an MRI. I thought it was a self deprecating joke but he was serious.

I learned this from Scrubs

This happened in Scrubs.

Obviously we should have bigger radiology machines. It wouldn’t be unreasonable to have them where you have a substantial fat population.

I hate to read any post on the internet that involves both the words "animal" and "consent."

Human beings are inexplicable, contradictory species that don't know how to view the world through anything other than our momentary feelings about things, and the universe suffers for it.

Stopped asking those pesky questions about what?!?

Peace is finally an option.

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20 ccs of lasagna, stat!

He is thinking how he is going to hunt and kill all these humans, one by one.

I’m guessing they would have some sort of overhead crane to do the heavy lifting

Actually most of them (according to a friend who works for a large animal hospital and has some human EMS background) are intubated far easier than humans - and they place a "hand safer" device (if you're old enough to remember the "plastic screw device"-I don't actually remember the actual name- used to open a seizure patients jaw that were once used, they are similar).

Back in my training day we used cats to practice neonatal intubation.

I actually would love to be the one to intubate them!

The bird is for a normal x-ray. Here's the context.

CT scans take much longer, but an x-ray is just a few seconds. I think it's just a practical way to get the bird in place for a quick x-ray, and by practical I mean the vet techs minimize their (very real) risk of being murdered.

Birds have very delicate air sacs. For small birds like that constricting them can seriously damage them and cause issues breathing.

Gotta get the wings spread.

If you need to ask...

Good phones 🙄

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On OkCupid, I once briefly courted a woman with the username "RazeTheAxolotl." One of my opening questions was whether she meant "raise" or "raze." She meant "raise."

I don't think asking that helped with my chances. We didn't end up going on any dates.

Depends what imaging technique they're using. X-ray CT might work ok with a little water in the way. Nuclear magnetic resonance might not be so good.

Got no serious answer, so here are some results based on reverse image search:

1. Rhinoceros. Credit: Chicago Zoological Society. Possible source: Black Rhinoceros Undergoes Portable CT Scan At Brookfield Zoo
2. Bear. Credit: Kimberly Fornek / Pioneer Press. Possible source: Brookfield Zoo CT scan
3. Humsters. Credit: unknown.
4. Alligator. Credit: UF College of Veterinary Medicine. Possible source: Massive sick alligator given CT scan at University of Florida

Feel free to add more in your replies if you have time to search.

Dear, @fossilesque@mander.xyz please credit the authors and/or sources of the picture you're posting. Those most likely aren't public domain, meaning credit is required (and possibly more). Also citing the source provide interesting background on the pictures.

The author is my mom

Yeah, they’re usually found in the grasslands of Africa and a few other places in the world in addition to zoos and such.

MRT machines are much larger than the devices shown here.

I think it might be a sloth bear: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sloth_bear

Captain Buzzkill.