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

I’m sorry, but I cannot stop laughing at this hedgehog 😂
- 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.
  
  Except had a brain tumor causing epilepsy.
- 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.
  
  Wearing a surgical drain is brave all on its own, but that makes me extra inspired!
- Taped animals were the most interesting of the set.
- I love how it's just taped down with like masking tape lol
  
  Otherwise he’d be moving so fast the blueshift would be visibly noticeable
- they made that mfer 2-dimensional
  
  Singer would be proud
- why are they MRI-ing a filet? :3
- 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)

This feels like the equivalent of getting abducted by a superintelligent alien race, being put into a machine beyond your wildest comprehension, and then probably getting a treat and sent back home where nobody will believe you
- 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 >:(

My favorite is definitely that poor hedgehog, LOL
- Mine are the snake and the taped bird
  
  The dolphin sent me.
  
  They really just folded that snake up
- That one made me laugh as well. I never knew they had such... unflattering (yet flat!) bodies.

funny sad fact, if a person weigh 600 or more lbs, they sometimes have to use xrays/ct/mri in the zoos that are meant for larger animals.
- 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.
  
  Does a larger MRI produce more data than a smaller one (same data density over a larger volume), or is it the same resolution spread out over a larger space?
- 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.
  
  It would probably be wiser to focus on healthcare access and nutrition than to make extremely expensive and already large pieces of equipment triple size as standard when alternatives already exist.
  
  And for multiperson scanning of compatible patients in a dramatically more cancerous pandemic-affected modern cohort with dwindling hospital infrastructure! ᕕ(ᐛ)ᕗ

Do we also get a thread of pictures of animals getting CT scans with their consent?
- Thanks for sharing. How does the fish one work? The dolphin I get because it breathes oxygen, but don’t all fish have gills? I feel like it should be in the water.
  
  Somehow I don’t think the fish consented to this..
  
  We need higher res photo of Steven the fish
  
  Some of those seem to have consented after being forced to.
- 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.

The hamster burritos got me good.

Stopped asking those pesky questions now didn't it?
- Stopped asking those pesky questions about what?!?
  
  Grapes
  
  https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/goose-chasing-guy
- Peace is finally an option.

Burrito
- 🇫 🇷 🇪 🇪 🇭 🇮 🇲

tomorrow is monday again, folks
- 20 ccs of lasagna, stat!
- He is thinking how he is going to hunt and kill all these humans, one by one.

A fucking rhino!?
How many people did it take to get him on the gurney?
- I’m guessing they would have some sort of overhead crane to do the heavy lifting

I wouldn’t want to be the one to have to intubate those animals.
- 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!

I don't think animals are ever okay getting CT scanned

Why couldn't that bird get a sleeping bag like the hamster did? Seems a bit drastic taping it down by the neck
- 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.
  
  hehe
  Random mirror linker btw:
  https://farside.link/https://www.reddit.com/r/VetTech/comments/1ge3kh0/modern_art
- Birds have very delicate air sacs. For small birds like that constricting them can seriously damage them and cause issues breathing.
  
  I think they lack a diaphragm. It was weird reading in my cockatiel care books that some handling on the neck was fine, but even small pressure to their chest could prevent them from breathing.
- Gotta get the wings spread.

Are we the bad guys?
- If you need to ask...

The snake got me laughing. They just folded it onto itself.

What don't Samsung make?
- Good phones 🙄

There's definitely two kinds
Ima napping
You think this is funny? This cell won't hold me forever. And once I'm free, you will all regret it

The mice got a nice pillow

I can't believe nobody has posted this edit yet
- Congratulations! You have won The Internet today.
  
  Pip pip!

"Against their will" made me chuckle

The crossovers between veterinary medicine and pediatric medicine are a lot more significant than most people like to think about. The Venn diagram isn't a perfect circle....but it's close.

that goose is gonna kill some mfs when it wakes up

How long does something need to stay still for a CT scan and can you send water through, just thinking about aquatic animals if you could just send the tank through.
Looking at my axolotl who can happily sit there not moving for hours in the hope of ambushing prey, staying still should be easy enough.
- 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.

Interesting.
Did you take these pictures, or could you mention their source? I want to make sure the author(s) get credit.
- Got no serious answer, so here are some results based on reverse image search:
  Rhinoceros. Credit: Chicago Zoological Society. Possible source: Black Rhinoceros Undergoes Portable CT Scan At Brookfield Zoo
  Bear. Credit: Kimberly Fornek / Pioneer Press. Possible source: Brookfield Zoo CT scan
  Humsters. Credit: unknown.
  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

Hats off to all these people keeping everything under control and helping these creatures. I cannot imagine how pissed off that lion or tiger would be if they woke up in the middle of a giant metal donut that makes tons of noise. I mean that takes a lot of courage. Most I will volunteer for is the bird, the fluffy burrito, and maybe the hedgehog. Pretty much anything that won't eat me.

A... giraffe? Are they alive?
- Yeah, they’re usually found in the grasslands of Africa and a few other places in the world in addition to zoos and such.
  
  I mean giraffe from the photo.
  Or it's just a head with neck 👀

Amazing post

Love how the bird is still smiling
Thanks so much for sharing!

OMG

Whats the type of bear on 3rd picture?
- I think it might be a sloth bear: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sloth_bear

The only thing animals should be forced to do!

I have a feeling, most of those are MRT and not CT
- MRT machines are much larger than the devices shown here.

Poor Sonic…

That CT scanner is like a D&D magic item that lets you conjure up to 2 hit-dice worth of medicated animals....

This made me smile! I love it 😀

What do you mean against their will? Did you ask them politely?

Would love an explanatory text writeup to go along with these. How else do vets diagnose big sick animals?

they did surgery on a grape!

Oh man I feel bad for thr intubated ones
- They're probably having a better time than the ones that aren't intubated. The intubation is to make sure they're still breathing while they're anesthetized. The ones without tubes are just awake and angry/scared.

That horse one reminds me of a drawing of how a horse was hung as a form of execution for crimes, they had it strung up by it's hooves

First one is the Montauk Monster?!

Ok, now do animals being tortured and murdered against their will. Much much bigger photoset.
- Captain Buzzkill.