Rob Daniel, DVM, DACVIM (Neurology)

Jennifer Michaels, DVM, DACVIM (Neurology)

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After a brief hiatus from accepting new medical oncology cases, our Oncology service is pleased to again welcome new patients for both medical oncology and radiation therapy services.

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We are pleased that our Internal Medicine service at Angell West continues to offer outpatient ultrasound (O/P U/S) appointments and have added evening drop-off spots on alternating Mondays. Due to increased caseload in Boston, our Diagnostic Imaging service has suspended the referral outpatient ultrasound service at our Boston location.

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The Angell Ophthalmology service is temporarily not accepting new patients seeking elective care due to a staffing shortage and an unusually high caseload. We will keep you posted once this changes.

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Unfortunately, despite the parallels between human and veterinary medicine, the peri-operative and anesthetic mortality rates remain up to 100-fold higher in veterinary medicine. Angell veterinary anesthesiologist Dr. Stephanie Krein examines the potential reasons why mortality rates are higher in veterinary medicine.

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Angell is fortunate to have an in-house pathology service for cytologic and histopathologic diagnoses. In this article, Patty Ewing, DVM, MS, DACVP (Clinical and Anatomic), provides detailed photos and descriptions of canine and feline liver cytology to aid in diagnosis.

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The primary presenting complaint of PSOM is gradual hearing loss that can occur over a 3-8 month period, sometimes concurrently with head shaking/ear irritation with no evidence of concurrent otitis externa. Dr. Brooke Simon of Angell's Dermatology service reviews the clinical signs, diagnosis and treatment of this disease.

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Standardized fluid therapy recipes (“one size fits all”) are no longer supported; instead, current recommendations urge that fluid therapy is detailed for the individual patient, taking into consideration their clinical illness, needs/deficits, and comorbidities. The primary goal behind using intravenous fluids is to maintain or restore intravascular volume, tissue perfusion, and reverse dehydration. Courtney Peck, DVM, DACVECC provides helpful information on how to effectively incorporate fluid therapy into our daily practice.

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One of the invaluable secrets behind successful corrective osteotomies is the use of orthopedic software. No longer "eyeballing" it, today's veterinary surgeon can combat lameness with extreme precision.

Thankfully, in the world of digital radiology, software programs have been developed that allow the surgeon to plan, down the millimeter and degree, exactly where to cut, which implant to use, and to see how the postoperative radiographic results will look, with nothing more than a click of a mouse.

>>Dr. Nick Trout explains...

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