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Samuel David Hurcombe

Associate Professor of Large Animal Emergency and Critical Care, University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine

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Education:
BSc (Veterinary Biology)
Murdoch University, 2001.
BVMS (Veterinary Medicine & Surgery)
Murdoch University, 2003.
MS (Veterinary Medicine)
The Ohio State University, 2008.
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Description of Clinical Expertise

Equine emergency and critical care, equine colic surgery, sepsis/endotoxemia

Description of Research Expertise

Equine emergency and critical care, equine colic surgery, sepsis/endotoxemia

Selected Publications

Dembek K A, Hurcombe S D, Stewart A J, Barr B S, MacGillivray K C, Kinee M, Elam J, Toribio R E: Association of aldosterone and arginine vasopressin concentrations and clinical markers of hypoperfusion in neonatal foals. Equine veterinary journal 48(2): 176-81, Mar 2016.

Bonilla Alvaro G, Scansen Brian A, Hurcombe Samuel D, Mudge Margaret C: Potential for iatrogenic coil embolization of the caudal cerebellar artery during treatment of internal carotid artery bifurcation in two horses with guttural pouch mycosis. Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association 247(12): 1427-32, Dec 2015.

Dembek Katarzyna A, Hurcombe Samuel D A, Schober Karsten E, Toribio Ramiro E: Sudden death of a horse with supraventricular tachycardia following oral administration of flecainide acetate. Journal of veterinary emergency and critical care (San Antonio, Tex. : 2001) 24(6): 759-63, Nov-Dec 2014.

Hurcombe S D, Welch B R, Williams J M, Cooper E S, Russell D, Mudge M C: Dark-field microscopy in the assessment of large colon microperfusion and mucosal injury in naturally occurring surgical disease of the equine large colon. Equine veterinary journal 46(6): 674-80, Nov 2014.

Kullmann A, Holcombe S J, Hurcombe S D, Roessner H A, Hauptman J G, Geor R J, Belknap J: Prophylactic digital cryotherapy is associated with decreased incidence of laminitis in horses diagnosed with colitis. Equine veterinary journal 46(5): 554-9, Sep 2014.

McClellan Nathaniel R, Santschi Elizabeth M, Hurcombe Samuel D A, Litsky Alan S: An ex vivo model to evaluate the effect of cyclical adductory forces on maintenance of arytenoid abduction after prosthetic laryngoplasty performed with and without mechanical arytenoid abduction. Veterinary surgery : VS 43(5): 598-605, Jul 2014.

Roberts Holly A, Hurcombe Samuel D A, Hillier Andrew, Lorch Gwendolen: Equine intradermal test threshold concentrations for house dust mite and storage mite allergens and identification of stable acari fauna. Veterinary dermatology 25(2): 124-34, e35-6, Apr 2014.

Scott Victoria H, Williams Jarred M, Mudge Margaret C, Hurcombe Samuel D: Effect of body position on intra-abdominal pressures and abdominal perfusion pressures measured at three sites in horses anesthetized with short-term total intravenous anesthesia. American journal of veterinary research 75(3): 301-8, Mar 2014.

Barsnick R J I M, Hurcombe S D A, Dembek K, Frazer M L, Slovis N M, Saville W J A, Toribio R E: Somatotropic axis resistance and ghrelin in critically ill foals. Equine veterinary journal 46(1): 45-9, Jan 2014.

Dembek Katarzyna A, Hurcombe Samuel D, Frazer Michele L, Morresey Peter R, Toribio Ramiro E: Development of a likelihood of survival scoring system for hospitalized equine neonates using generalized boosted regression modeling. PloS one 9(10): e109212, 2014.

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