Abstract
Newborn foals are very susceptible to potentially fatal diseases. Therefore, it is of great importance to identify variables that allow to predict the survival of these patients, and promptly start the appropriate treatment for each case. A retrospective study was carried out at the Equine Foal Care Perinatology Center, located in the municipality of Cajicá, Cundinamarca. The medical records of 106 foals admitted to hospitalization between September of 2019 and December of 2020 were reviewed, the necessary data was collect, and analyzed, in order to evaluate the predictive value of the clinical examination against the survival of hospitalized neonatal foals, and to identify which of these variables function as early markers of survival. Different statistical tests were used, such as the Kolmogorov Smirnov test, the Mann-Whitney test, the binary logistic regression, the chi-square tests, the ROC curves and the odds ratio (OR). The variables most significantly related to survival were heart rate (p = 0.019), rectal temperature (p = 0.002), lukewarm ears and limbs (p = 0.013) and concordant full strong pulse (p = 0.002). Risk factors associated with foal nonsurvival were temperature < 38 °C, heart rate < 100 bpm, cold ears and extremities, and weak pulse.References
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Keywords
neonate
survival
clinical examination
physiological parameters