Card 11 / 32: A 13 year-old, castrated male Shetland pony comes to your practice for treatment of a contaminated and infected laceration on one fetlock. After attending to the wound you administer procaine penicillin intramuscular and place him in a stall to rest. Within 1 hour your technician finds the pony down with tachypnea, labored breathing and marked tachycardia. He is rapidly losing consciousness. What is the most likely cause of tachycardia?
A) Systemic Vasodilation
B) Systemic Vascular leakage
C) Systemic Hypertension
D) Both 1 and 2 are correct

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