RUMENOTOMY 



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Control of Patient. In many cases of overfilling of the 

 jumen, the patient is unconscious and paralyzed so that 

 neither restraint nor anaesthesia is indicated. In most 

 other cases, rumenotomy may be performed on the standing 

 animal, in stocks or restrained with leading ring in the 

 nose. Very resistant animals may require confinement in 

 lateral recumbency on the right side with the fore feet 

 stretched forward and the hind ones backward. 



FIG. 30. 



Rumenotomy showing location of incision, with incised walls of 

 rumen drawn out through laparotomy incision over the protective 

 gauze and held by forceps. 



The operative area should be clipped, shaved and disin- 

 fected. Local cutaneous anaethesia should be induced by 

 subcutaneous injections at short distances along the line of 

 intended incision. The muscular walls should later be 



