New Diagnosis Event Action

Watch this video to get a brief overview of the New Diagnosis Event action. The text below goes into more detail.

This action is used to diagnose a sick animal and start the treatment process. Once an animal is diagnosed, you can continue to add treatment events until the process is finished. At that point you would indicate to Herdly that the animal is no longer being treated.

Although not normal, it is possible for an animal to be treated for two different diagnoses at the same time. However, Herdly will warn about this if you use this action for an animal already being treated.

Starting the Action

This action can be used on both computers and mobile devices. To learn how to start an action, please see Actions.

First select the animal to be treated. Then you can start this action. It will only be available if exactly one animal is selected.

On mobile devices, the New Diagnosis Event action is found under the Events tool bar item.

Action Fields

All of this action's fields are listed below. If any are required to have a value, that is noted. If there is any special information about the field that you need to know for this action, it is also noted. More general information about all of the fields can be found in the Field Descriptions topic.

• Diagnosis.
  • Diagnosis. Required. By default you can choose from the ranch-chosen diagnoses, but you can always choose from all available diagnoses as well. On a computer, use the ... button to do this. On a mobile device, use the control that switches between ranch only and all diagnoses.
  • Date. Required.
  • Location.
  • Vet.
  • Note.
• First Treatment. At least one treatment is always associated with a diagnosis, so it and any drugs administered should be entered as part of this action. You can add more treatments in the future if you want.
  • Is Last Treatment. If this first treatment is also the only one, make sure to indicate that with this field.
  • Weight. You can record the weight of the animal when treated if you want.
  • Temperature. You can record the temperature of the animal when treated if you want.
  • Lung Score. You can record the lung score of the animal when treated if you want.
• Drugs. You can record any number of drugs administered during the first treatment here. Or you can leave this section blank if no drugs were administered. Tap the + button to add another drug. The following fields pertain to each drug you entered.
  • Drug. Required. You can choose from your ranch-chosen drugs, but you can always choose from all available drugs as well. On a computer, use the ... button to do this. On a mobile device, use the control that switches between ranch only and all drugs.
  • Route. Required. After you've chosen a drug, the possible administration routes for that drug will be available in this field and the first one will automatically be selected. You can change it if you need to.
  • Location. You can record the administration location here, if you want.
  • Dosage. Required.
  • Cost. Herdly automatically calculates the cost of administering this drug each time you change the drug or dosage. This is based on the drug pricing you current have set up in Drugs. You can manually recalculate using the Recalculate button or manually enter a value.
• Treatment Note.
• Treatment Photo.

When you have finished filling in the fields in this action, use the Save button to save your information. Unless you checked the Is Last Treatment field, the animal will now be considered in treatment. As you continue to treat the animal, use the New Treatment Event action to record more treatments. Each time you do, you'll have the option to tell Herdly that it is the last treatment. If you forget, you can always edit the diagnosis event and tell Herdly the treatment is finished.

If you make a mistake with the diagnosis part of this event, use the Diagnosis Events child list on the computer to edit or delete the diagnosis. If you make a mistake with the treatment or drugs part of this event, use the Treatment Events child list on the computer to edit or delete the treatment.  On a mobile device, you can edit or delete diagnoses or treatments by using the edit button next to the event in the Animal History action.