What to Watch tonight: The Supervet
icymiofficial.com Stuck for what to watch on TV tonight? The Supervet: Noel Fitzpatrick is on Channel 4 tonight at 9pm.
The new series continues, showcasing the extraordinary work of veterinary surgeon Professor Noel Fitzpatrick. One-and-a-half-year-old Maine Coon cat Lexie is brought into the practice with a fractured hip joint, which Noel determines is caused by a genetic disease that has made the heads of both of her femur bones degenerate. After a very challenging process of weighing up the pros and cons of surgery, her family opt for bilateral total hip replacement. Bouncy one-year-old Border terrier Charlie is in pain and struggles to put weight on his hind leg.
Charlie broke a growth plate in the top of his tibia bone when he was a puppy and it self-healed, but at the wrong angle, and a recent knock in the same area has ruptured his cruciate ligament. The angle of the joint surface in Charlie's knee is so steep that Noel proposes two different bone cuts to level out the joint surface. He will then secure the segments of bone with his own invention, the 'FROG' plate, which is custom-made using computer models of Charlie's CT scan to fit his tibia bone exactly.
And huge two-year-old dwarf rabbit Locky has broken his leg. Noel hopes to fix his fragile bones with a very small custom plate, but time is of the essence; the longer Locky is away from his rabbit family at home, the greater the risk that they could reject him. An urgent call from Noel to his manufacturing and engineering team at Fitzbionics fast-tracks the design and manufacturing process for this delicate procedure on a minuscule scale.
Stream it on Channel 4, available on a Humax set-top box.
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