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This should contain:

• Sterile instruments, including several 4 inch non-cutting and cutting curved suturing needles, one pair of needle holders, one pair of ‘Gillies’, one pair of rat-toothed dressing forceps, one pair of flat-ended dressing forceps, one scalpel blade holder, one large pair of straight scissors, four large pairs of artery forceps, two small pairs of artery forceps, and two pairs of uterus-holding forceps.

• Scalpel blades which must fit the scalpel blade holder in the sterile instrument pack.

• Polyglactin suture material.

• Monofilament nylon suture material.

• A sterile tray cloth.

• Two sterile calving ropes.

• A navel clip.

• Hair clippers (or razors).

• A sterile scrubbing brush.

• Two packets of large sterile swabs.

• A sterile embryotomy knife or a disposable embryotomy knife.

• Disposable syringes (10, 20 and 30 ml).

• Disposable needles (4 cm × 18 G).

• Pieces of cotton wool in a bag for cleaning the skin.

• Bottle of surgical spirit.

• Bottle of chlorhexidine.

• 1 × 25 ml oxytocin injection containing 10 IU/ml.

• 1 × 100 ml water for injection.

• 1 × 50 ml solution of clenbuterol hydrochloride containing 30 micro-grams/ml.

• 3 × 5 mega crystalline penicillin.

• 3 × 100 ml local anaesthetic.

• 100 ml aqueous suspension of a mixture of procaine penicillin and dihydro-streptomycin.

• Dopram drops.

• 50 ml solution of clenbuterol hydrochloride containing 30 micrograms/ml.

• A 100 ml bottle of an injectable nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) licensed for ruminants.

• An antibiotic aerosol.

• A 5 m length of rope to be tied around the right hind leg and brought under the cow’s body so that it can be pulled if the cow is appearing to go down. This will make sure the cow falls with her left flank uppermost.