Dear Sir/ Madam:
As recently appointed veterinary for "Quintinha dos Animais" association, I was asked to do a complete list of needs for a veterinary hospital in the Algarve and send it to you, as arranged with Mrs. Lurdes Ingle.

Below you can find all the items of the list :

- Absorvent cotton
- Cohesive bands 7,5 and 10 cm
- Endotracheal tubes (different sizes)
- Clipper machine and blades 5,7,10,40
- Slides
- Slide holders
- Non- woven swabs
- Quick stop styptic powder
- Immuno kits: heartworm, ehrlichia, leishmania, FIV/FeLV, Parvovirus, Chlamydia
- Urethral catheters with stylet for cats (1,0mm) and dogs
- Electronic scale
- Muzzles (different sizes)
- 4 digital Thermometers
- 2 Stethoscopes
- Laryngoscope
- 2 Otoopthalmoscope
- Wood's lamp
- Ecg
- X-Ray machine
- Developing tanks
- Developer and fixer liquids ( OR automatic X-Ray processing )
- X- Ray Films 30x 40
- Displasia ruler
- 2 Cassetes 30 x 40
- Infra-red lamp
- Lead apron ( 1 size M and 1 size XL )
- 2 Lead gloves
- 2 Thyroid collar
- Lead impregnator tape
- 2 Portable negatoscopes
- X-Ray positioner
- Microscope
- Video system for microscope
- Color kits: Lugol, Gram, KOH 10%, Lactophenol, immersion oil
- Cups for urine and faeces
- Fecal diagnoses kits
- Syringes 2, 5 and 10ml
- Needeles 20 and 21 G
- Fluid Administration sets
- Blood transfusion sets
- Surgical gloves ( sizes 6,5 and 8 )
- Examination gloves ( sizes 6,5 and 8 )
- Surgical caps
- Face masks
- Surgical needles 1/2 circle small/medium sizes
- Catgut chromic: 2/0, 0 ,1
- PDS II: 0
- Vicryl: 4/0
- Supramid: 0,1
- Operation drapes
- Veterinary anaesthesia and monitorizing equipment
- Anaesthesia
- Portable Ambu
- Scalpel and blades size 21
- Scissors:
2 Lister
2 Spencer
2 Mayo straight
2 Metzenbaum straight
2 Mayo curved
- Forceps:
1 Carmault
2 Adson
1 Iris
2 Allis
1 Semkin
4 Halstead straight
2 Hartmann curved
4 Kelly straight
2 Ferguson straight
2 Rochester
1 Alligator Hartmann 16,5 cm
- Needle holders:
1 Olsen-Heger 14cm
1 Olsen-Heger 16,5cm
2 Crile-Wood
2 Mayo-Hegar
- 2 Weitlander retractors 3 x 4
- 2 Eyelid retractors
- Nasal, vaginal and ear rangeurs
- Stainless steel wire 0 and 2
- Kirschner needles - various sizes
- Steinmann pins - various sizes
- External fixation equipment
- 2 Nail clippers
- Stainless steel bowls
- Instrument and material trolleys with wheels
- 2 Cat restraint cages
- Surgical table
- 3 Stainless steel appointment tables with wheels
- Stainless steel cages for hospitalisation
- Surgical lamp
- 2 Diathermy units
- Edta and dry tubes
- 3 Tourniquets
- Centrifuser
- Petri plates
- 2 Tube holders
- Fluorosceine ophthalmic strips
- Schrimmer test
- Dermatophyt test
- Agar sabaroud
- Sensi-vet color
- Insuline needles and syringes
- Intravenous catheters with needles 22 e 24 G
- 4 Intravenous flux regulators
- Steel fluid holders
- Penrose drains 1,3 cm
- Solutions:
Normal saline
Lactated ringer's
Dextrans glucose
Dextrans saline
Manitol
- Autoclave
- Sterilization bags and tape
- Sterilization control strips
- Ultrasound
- Lubricating gel
- Incubator
- 2 Intensive care units
- Alcohol
- Peroxide
- Iodine
- Formoldeide 10 %
- Ether
- Adhesive tape 2,5 and 5 cm
- Bandages 5 and 7 cm
- Vet cast
- Splints of different sizes
- Dental scaler
- Food administration catheters
- Mouth openers
- Biopsy pistol
- Buster neck plastic colours (different sizes)
- Transporting cages (different sizes)
- Teeth forceps medium size
- 2 Small refrigerators
- 3 Desks and 12 chairs
- Computer + printer + vet management program
- Paraffin gauze dressings
- Cambric bandage
- Cotton tips
- Suction unit
- Tongue depressors
- Braun IV fluid heater
- Hemathology and chemistry analysis equipments
- Endoscope

- Normally used drugs for injections:
Amoxycicline + clavulamic
Virbac's "Zoletil" 100
Oxitetraciclin
"Baytril" 5%
Prednisolone
Ampicilin
Cephalosporin
"Metacam"
Furosemide
Atropine sulphate
Metoclorpramide
Vitamine K
Vitamine supplements
Iron
Calcium


« Quintinha dos Animais » is a very poor association that struggles everyday to help hundreds of abandoned animals throughout the Algarve and has no economical support from any council.
So any help you can provide will be very helpful.

Best regards,

Miguel Rasteiro (OMV 1941)

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