PRACTICE TOUR - PART TWO

CONSULTING ROOMS

We have three consulting rooms. Two are used by the vets and the third is used by the nurses. They will admit all the in-patients prior to surgery and deal with a lot of the routine preventative consultations. Many of these are offered free of charge to our clients and include obesity clinics, dental problems, post-op checks, free 6 monthly checks between vaccinations as well as in-depth behaviour problem analysis.

DIAGNOSTIC ROOM

We have a large range of hi-tech equipment some of which is stored and used here.

The X-Ray machine is a high power unit and is backed up with automatic processing of the films in the dark room next door. This machine has many uses but is mainly used for looking at bone roblems such as fractures as well as chest and abdominal views.

The ultrasound machine is a very modern unit capable of colour Doppler. This enables us to look at blood flow directly which means we can assess heart problems more easily. It is also good for looking at soft tissue problems such as liver, spleen, kidney and bladder. The obvious role, as in humans, is for pregnancy diagnosis.

Endoscopes are flexible fibre-optic tubes which can be used to look down windpipes to the lungs and down the oesophagus in to the stomach. As well as being able to look directly at the tissues we can sometimes retrieve foreign bodies such as stones when they have lodged somewhere they shouldn't have!!

ECG (electrocardiograph) machines are used for measuring the electrical activity of the heart. Some animals develop arrhythmias which means their heart is beating irregularly. This machine can help tell us why.

 

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