By NICK GOSNELL
Hutch Post
HUTCHINSON, Kan. — A Hutchinson veterinarian was disciplined by the state's Board of Veterinary Examiners for medical records violations after a neutering job he did on a boxer earlier this year had to be treated by another vet.
Tammy Tidd from Hutchinson emailed the state board on February 23 after her dog named Rascal, that their family calls Fatboy, had bleeding she could not stop after being neutered by Roy C Russell, DVM at Country Junction in Hutchinson on February 17, 2021.
Tidd told the agency that Fatboy was covered in his own blood and that staff told her they didn't bathe him because it was too cold outside. She said he bled all night.
"I left work early to come home and find his sack engorged and swollen, he was black and blue!," Tidd said. "Took him to emergency vet to find out he had a blood clot, they had to keep him overnight and during the surgery found that one of his main blood vessels had been cut during the initial surgery!"
The vet at VCA Central Kansas Animal Hospital told Tidd this does happen sometimes. According to the records provided by VCA to the KBVE that Hutch Post obtained through an open records request, when they examined him and determined additional surgery needed to be done on February 19, Fatboy had significant inflammation and there was a large blood clot in the left testicular artery. VCA told Tidd that one of the ligatures had slipped.
Russell's rebuttal to the agency did not note any problems in urination or in the attitude of the animal during the six hours he was kept for observation on February 17.
The violation that Russell was disciplined for by the Board of Veterinary Examiners regarded the record keeping connected with the February procedure.
The ruling by the board noted that Russell failed to include in any record to the agency, the route of administration of the anesthesia, the amount or concentration of anesthesia administered, a surgical record, or the results of a presurgical examination.
As the discipline for the records violations, Russell was required to take a 90-minute Veterinary Medical Records course available through the Washington State University School of Veterinary Medicine at his own cost.
The order in the case was entered May 26. Russell sent his completed course certificate on June 4.