Mouth to Beak CPR Revives American Bald Eagle (Video)

07/20/2011

Story by Megan D. from Care2.com 

A seriously injured American Bald Eagle was saved by a Oregon veterinarian the other day.  Dr. Jeff Cooney was performing an examination of the bird’s injuries under anesthesia when the eagle named Patriot stopped breathing.  Dr. Cooney gave mouth to beak resuscitation and quickly got Patriot to start breathing on his own again.

In what was thought to be injuries caused by an automobile, the raptor sustained a fractured wing and dislocated elbow and wrist.

“The dislocated shoulder and his paralyzed right leg are his major problems right now,” Dr. Cooney told KTVZ News. “His shoulder is really badly damaged… if he was going to live forever in pain from the shoulder injury, I’d have to euthanize him.”

Let’s hope it will not come to that.  Keep up with Patriot’s progress by following him on Twitter.

   

 

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“The dislocated shoulder and his paralyzed right leg are his major problems right now,” Dr. Cooney told KTVZ News. “His shoulder is really badly damaged… if he was going to live forever in pain from the shoulder injury, I’d have to euthanize him.”

[biedrona2010]

poor eagle ...

[ZaCloud]

This is why it's generally NOT a good idea to use anesthesia on a bird or reptile (or any animal, if it can be avoided). Birds are ESPECIALLY difficult to anesthetize without extreme risk of death. If possible, they should have just done the examination with a tech holding the legs and wrapping the bird's head. With their eyes covered, they usually go into a trance and stay calm enough to be examined and x-rayed.

While I highly commend the vet for managing such a difficult version of CPR (birds' lungs are small, but have air pockets, which can make it very hard to gauge the amount of breath to use), I have my doubts about the practice's ability to deal properly with injured birds. They should send him to a place where they know better than to anesthetize a bird who was, for all they knew, in critical condition already.

It's possible there were other circumstances of course -a fluke in that the bird would not 'trance' when his eyes were covered, the pain was too bad, etc-, but a local numbing shot would have been much safer in the latter case. I just hope that whatever is truly best for the bird will be what ends up done.

[ZaCloud]

I also worry about pneumonia; by anesthetizing him, it's possible food and/or grit from his crop got into his lungs, hence why he stopped breathing. There's very little that can be done if that's the case, and the stress of captivity could put him over the edge.

I really, really wish they hadn't anesthetized him...

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