By the time Dobby arrived at Ryan Hospital’s Emergency Room (ER), he was in a bad way. The two-year-old Welsh Corgi had been vomiting off and on for a few days and was straining to urinate. “He also wasn’t eating,” says owner Zhi Peng Yang, who lives in Philadelphia and rushed Dobby to Penn Vet.
“When he got here, Dobby was in circulatory shock, and, given his symptoms, I was immediately concerned about a uroabdomen, which is a dangerous situation of urine leaking in the abdomen,” says Natalie Kovak, a resident in the ER and the attending physician that Friday afternoon. “I scanned his abdomen with our ultrasound and did see fluid.”
X-rays also revealed a large stone in the dog’s urethra. It was causing the life-threatening obstruction keeping him from urinating. Kovak placed a drain in Dobby’s abdomen to remove the urine. She also inserted a urethral catheter to help pass the stone and placed him on intravenous fluids, pain medications, and antibiotics.
“He was very unstable,” she remembers. “I actually thought he wasn’t going to make it for a while, even with all our overnight interventions in the ER.”
Materials in the Annenberg School for Communication Library Archives include thousands of TV scripts, the first issue of TV Guide, and interviews about the early days of HBO—which help to chronicle TV’s 100-year story.
Centering joy in AI development and implementation
PIK Professor Desmond Upton Patton—of Annenberg and SP2—and collaborators introduce a joy-informed framework designed to initiate conversations among engineers, designers, and researchers.
Winter Storm Fern brought icy and snowy conditions to the Northeast and other parts of the country over the weekend. Penn Today asks physicist Robert Carpick about the unique properties of ice, the science of curling, and how close we are to ‘nonslip’ ice.
Organizations like Penn’s Netter Center for Community Partnerships foster collaborations between Penn and public schools in the West Philadelphia community.
Penn receives national distinction for community engagement
The recognition by the American Council on Education and Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching acknowledges Penn’s long-standing commitment to community-engaged scholarship and partnerships in West Philadelphia and beyond.
