epoc Critical Care/Blood Gas Analyser Helps in Rhino and Elephant Long Term Anaesthesia Workshop for Wildlife Veterinarians
16 Jan 2025
It’s fantastic to hear how Woodley’s distribution partner in South Africa, Kyron Labs, helped with a Rhino and Elephant long term Anaesthesia Workshop for Wildlife Veterinarians.
Rentia Du Plessis, National Veterinary Sales Manager at Kyron Labs said:
“First of all, I just want to thank you again for sponsoring epoc cards for this Rhino & Elephant Long-term Anesthesia workshop for the Wildlife Veterinarians, it was an awesome learning experience for all attending!
The blood gas readings were a crucial part of the workshop, to demonstrate the safe Anaesthesia in the Rhino when doing procedures that are long (wound treatments of poached survivors, collecting ovum’s for later use in in-vitro fertilisation procedures and to preserve the species DNA pool etc).
Unfortunately, South Africa is far from overcoming the poaching problem in South Africa and neighbouring countries, the prediction is that we will lose this species existence in their natural habitat in our lifetime (there might only be the Rhino’s left which are in captivity/zoo’s). With people and syndicates in some places of the world that poach our Rhino’s to obtain rhino horn for high value ornaments we are far from winning this war. The sad reality is that these syndicates are relentless in their message to the poachers on the ground to kill all and any Rhino (with or without horn) in order to increase the value of the Rhino horn ornaments as Rhino’s are becoming more extinct – but we will keep on fighting for their survival – and that is only possible with kind people like you and companies like WOODLEY supporting us in our efforts to safe them – THANK YOU!
As always, the epoc’s results were spot-on and reliable and gave the lecturers and delegates the peace of mind that they’ve arrived at an effective and safe protocol when dealing with long-term anaesthesia.”
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