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Pace Cap'n
05-24-2006, 06:57 PM
This is what I heard on NPR this morning...

He went into the pool but didn't get wet. They had a large rubber "glove", for lack of a better word, into which he was placed. At the rear of this "glove" was a flotation device resembling a raft which supported almost all of his body.

At the front were humans, supporting his head and keeping him as calm as possible.

Many people were involved in this process, as many as a dozen at one time.

The doctor was in and out monitoring his progress the entire time.

The cost for such a procedure and recovery period can run into the "tens of thousands of dollars".

Ron
05-24-2006, 10:12 PM
Most of us know...

http://www.upenn.edu/vet/newsandevents/news/Barbaro/BARBARO1_HRes.jpg

maxwell
05-25-2006, 09:02 AM
Horses have a much better chance of recovery today. Twenty or thirty years ago a horse was almost always put down due to re-injury coming out of surgery. Cool Reception comes to mind. He broke a fore in the Belmont. He paniced coming out of sedation and shattered his repaired leg. Game over.