Optimal Management to Improve Quality of Life for an Injured Baby Elephant: Thailand Multidisciplinary Care Team

This article aimed to report the care, management, and monitoring of an injured female baby elephant. The collaboration among the multidisciplinary team included veterinary medicines, elephant handling, engineering, and physical therapy in the 3-year-old elephant with its left forelimb phalanges am...

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Auteurs principaux:	Siriphan KONGSAWASDI, Kittichai WANTANAJITTIKUL, Warangkhana LANGKAPHIN, Busaba CHUATRAKOON, Kittikul NAMWONGPROM, Paphawee PRUPETKAEW, Taweepoke ANGKAWANISH
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Publié:	University of Kafkas 2021
Sujets:	amputation artificial shoe elephant gait analysis prosthesis Veterinary medicine SF600-1100
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:341db04d5a7f4e919b5047aa2d3fc9822021-12-02T19:03:20ZOptimal Management to Improve Quality of Life for an Injured Baby Elephant: Thailand Multidisciplinary Care Team10.9775/kvfd.2021.259271300-60451309-2251https://doaj.org/article/341db04d5a7f4e919b5047aa2d3fc9822021-09-01T00:00:00Zhttp://vetdergikafkas.org/uploads/pdf/pdf_KVFD_2829.pdfhttps://doaj.org/toc/1300-6045https://doaj.org/toc/1309-2251This article aimed to report the care, management, and monitoring of an injured female baby elephant. The collaboration among the multidisciplinary team included veterinary medicines, elephant handling, engineering, and physical therapy in the 3-year-old elephant with its left forelimb phalanges amputated through being caught in a snare trap. The management comprised medical wound care, nutrition and applying a prosthetic shoe. The kinematic parameters and vital sign monitoring were analysed. The results show that biomechanics gait analysis and physiological responses revealed promising benefit of the prosthetic shoe by reflecting a greater symmetrical gait pattern without dyspnea and no sign of exertion during daily life activity.Siriphan KONGSAWASDIKittichai WANTANAJITTIKULWarangkhana LANGKAPHIN Busaba CHUATRAKOONKittikul NAMWONGPROMPaphawee PRUPETKAEWTaweepoke ANGKAWANISHUniversity of Kafkasarticleamputationartificial shoeelephantgait analysisprosthesisVeterinary medicineSF600-1100ENKafkas Universitesi Veteriner Fakultesi Dergisi, Vol 27, Iss 5, Pp 655-659 (2021)
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topic	amputation artificial shoe elephant gait analysis prosthesis Veterinary medicine SF600-1100
spellingShingle	amputation artificial shoe elephant gait analysis prosthesis Veterinary medicine SF600-1100 Siriphan KONGSAWASDI Kittichai WANTANAJITTIKUL Warangkhana LANGKAPHIN Busaba CHUATRAKOON Kittikul NAMWONGPROM Paphawee PRUPETKAEW Taweepoke ANGKAWANISH Optimal Management to Improve Quality of Life for an Injured Baby Elephant: Thailand Multidisciplinary Care Team
description	This article aimed to report the care, management, and monitoring of an injured female baby elephant. The collaboration among the multidisciplinary team included veterinary medicines, elephant handling, engineering, and physical therapy in the 3-year-old elephant with its left forelimb phalanges amputated through being caught in a snare trap. The management comprised medical wound care, nutrition and applying a prosthetic shoe. The kinematic parameters and vital sign monitoring were analysed. The results show that biomechanics gait analysis and physiological responses revealed promising benefit of the prosthetic shoe by reflecting a greater symmetrical gait pattern without dyspnea and no sign of exertion during daily life activity.
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author	Siriphan KONGSAWASDI Kittichai WANTANAJITTIKUL Warangkhana LANGKAPHIN Busaba CHUATRAKOON Kittikul NAMWONGPROM Paphawee PRUPETKAEW Taweepoke ANGKAWANISH
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author_sort	Siriphan KONGSAWASDI
title	Optimal Management to Improve Quality of Life for an Injured Baby Elephant: Thailand Multidisciplinary Care Team
title_short	Optimal Management to Improve Quality of Life for an Injured Baby Elephant: Thailand Multidisciplinary Care Team
title_full	Optimal Management to Improve Quality of Life for an Injured Baby Elephant: Thailand Multidisciplinary Care Team
title_fullStr	Optimal Management to Improve Quality of Life for an Injured Baby Elephant: Thailand Multidisciplinary Care Team
title_full_unstemmed	Optimal Management to Improve Quality of Life for an Injured Baby Elephant: Thailand Multidisciplinary Care Team
title_sort	optimal management to improve quality of life for an injured baby elephant: thailand multidisciplinary care team
publisher	University of Kafkas
publishDate	2021
url	https://doaj.org/article/341db04d5a7f4e919b5047aa2d3fc982
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Optimal Management to Improve Quality of Life for an Injured Baby Elephant: Thailand Multidisciplinary Care Team

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