Postmortem Appearance of Shock
Postmortem appearance of shock due to severe injuries like Fracture, Crushing of tissues, Extensive lacerations and Avulsions, etc. seen.
- Fracture
- Crushing of tissues
- Extensive lacerations and Avulsions
- Generalised visceral congestion.
- Oedema of the lungs.
- Dark red fluid blood.
- Petechial haemorrhage in serious membranes and parenchymatous organs.
Procedures on Suspicion
- Take careful history, which may indicate changes of feed composition, exposure to poison or
- administration of potentially toxic preparation.
- Make a careful examination of the environment to look for the potential pathogens.
- Note the symptoms carefully and the time of their occurrence.
- When there is illness of large number of animals at a time and showing the same symptoms and post-mortem lesions.
- Carefully examine dead animals for signs of struggling, frothy nasal discharge etc.
- For correct diagnosis, it is essential to have the proper collection, preservation and chemical analysis
- from a forensic laboratory. The following tale gives the summary of the samples to e collected indifferent suspected conditions.
