Mateo is an eight year old gelding oldenburg
and he can jump the moon.
Mateo was colicing
and um I had my normal vet out Chris Camp
and we decided that he
needed to go out to OSU. And the minute I got there
they were absolutely wonderful.
We were met at the doors It was after hours and there were people
standing there waiting there, students
they decided that he did need surgery
He was in surgery for quite some time but
pulled through.
What I think
makes the Large Animal Hospital special
is all of these great clinicians
are able to work together
under one roof.
The fact that uh... you have a pretty tight-knit group of people.
It's not so large that it becomes uh...
a situation we are you are not an important part of the process
OSU, I really feel as a Large Animal Tech is kind of the gold standard.
We also have a wide array of the latest diagnostic equipment
the nuclear scintigraphy for
diagnosing lamenesses
and the CT that we
can put horse legs in so it's not just
radiographs and xrays but it is
CT scans and for small animals MRI ultrasounds
The uh
relationship that OSU would like to establish with referring veterinarians is
very much a collaborative model.
Refering veterinarians are the ones that See the animal first and can provide us some valuable history
and even more importantly they are the people that we're going to be sending the case back to
The main cases that we tend to see And are appropriate to see here
are the ones that are beyond the scope of general practice.
And so since we provide specialty care
for horses and the other species
what's not feasible to do an general practice is very appropriate here.
Any organ system needing we do surgical type care of Or we do medical management of
because we have
the specialty expertise to handle that.
We have three
qualified internal medicine specialists here I am also boarded in
sports medicine and rehabilitation
for large animals.
In addition we have four equine surgeons here.
The job of any veterinarian is a huge responsibility individually dealing with
a life
and not only that but not only that you're dealing with the life that impacts another
and that being that of the client.
Communicating a plan
and potential costs in
potential complications is really important
early on in the process and then
adjusting as needed. I think that's one of the great things about Oregon State
as
what we can provide the clients
so round-the-clock care is truely round the clock twenty four seven
There is not an hour that goes by that a patient is not being
monitored.
And you're doing everything from
physical exams to making sure their catheters are doing well just all that
all that stuff
you know needs to happen
not necessarily between the hours of nine and four
but all hours.
What OSU
facility did for me was uh... it was just amazing.
To be able to know that
no matter what the
outcome is
that the very best
care is there for your horse
it's like having the best physician
doing cancer surgery for you
there is no better than
OSU.