First Aid & Emergency Care

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Horse first aid: what you need to know if your horse suffers from a laceration.

Recipes for common horse care first-aid solutions.

Dr. Joyce Harman recommends several remedies for snakebite in this edition of EquiSearch.com's Ask the Vet.

It's getting into the hottest days of summer. Here's a quick heat-stress reference that'll help you know when your horse is overheated--and what to do to help him chill.

While we all want to avoid encounters with poisonous snakes, occasional snakebites do occur. If your horse gets bitten here's what you'll need to do.

It takes a little practice to bandage your horse's legs properly, but your horse will thank you for your efforts when he needs leg bandages.

Splints are enlargements that can occur along the length of a horse's splint bones, two slender bones that begin under the horse's knee and continue down the cannon bone.

Learn more about choke in horses, what causes it, the first aid response for treatment, and how to prevent future episodes.

If HEART can raise $25,000 in 2004, the Sweely Foundation will make an outright gift of a new truck.

A snakebite--particularly on the nose--can be a life-threatening event for your horse. Here's what to do.

What to do till the vet comes if your horse has an obvious or suspected fracture.

What to do until the vet comes if your horse sustains an injury with profuse bleeding.

Equine emergency--a listing of conditions and illnesses which may be life threatening and will require immediate veterinary care.

In the olden days veteran horsemen had their own patented methods for caring for the horses in their stables. Today's horsemen and women have adapted these time-honored remedies and added some new ones of their own.

Keeping accurate records of your horse's health needn't be a burdonsome chore, and the information it will provide may be the vital key to quickly spotting a potential horse health problem.

EQUUS Medical editor, Matthew Mackay-Smith answers a question concerning injection reactions.

Sometimes it's important to make your horse drink (even if he doesn't want to) to avoid dehydration.

Veterinarian Barb Crabbe offers help for your snake-bitten horse. Find out what you can do when you're on the trail to treat snakebite.

Veterinarian Barb Crabbe guides you on the trail -- as you administer first-aid to your lame horse.

Veterinarian Barb Crabbe guides you through the first-aid process when your horse suffers from allergies on the trail.

Trail Terrors Part 5: Tying Up on a Trail Ride, How to Recognize it and What to Do

Learn what to pack in your trail first-aid kit.

First Aid: A simple four-step method for finding your horse's pulse at the fetlock joint.