Russell Creek Pet Clinic and Hospital
9040
Independence Parkway
Plano, TX 75025
214-547-8387
We are proud to provide individualized
care to meet your needs and those of your pet.
The Radiograph Digital Converter (RDC) is an exciting innovation for veterinary radiology! This state of the art system allows us to capture high quality digital images of your pets radiographs and automatically save them to our network. The RDC also enables our clinic to save your pets digitized radiographs directly to the client/patient file in our Windows® based practice management software. Our clinic's practice can now easily take advantage of telemedicine services, e-mail radiograph images to specialists and have instant access to your pets radiograph images from our computer to make instant references to any and all questions.
Defibrillation is the definitive treatment for the life-threatening cardiac arrhythmias, ventricular fibrillation and pulse less ventricular tachycardia. Defibrillation consists of delivering a therapeutic dose of electrical energy to the affected heart with a device called a defibrillator. This depolarizes a critical mass of the heart muscle, terminates the arrhythmia, and allows normal sinus rhythm to be reestablished by the body's natural pacemaker, in thesinoatrial node of the heart. Defibrillators can be external, transvenous, or implanted, depending on the type of device used or needed. Some external units, known as automated external defibrillators (AEDs), automate the diagnosis of treatable rhythms, meaning that lay responders or bystanders are able to use them successfully with little, or in some cases no training at all.
Pre-anesthetic blood testing - why is it so important?
Before Dr. Greenwell puts a pet under anesthesia for a surgical or dental procedure, he likes to make sure that it is as healthy as possible. We are particularly concerned about your pet's body's ability to flush away the anesthesia after the surgery, and this is taken care of by the liver and the kidneys.
A small sample of blood is collected when your pet is first brought in for its procedure and is tested in our lab for certain enzyme levels. Which enzymes are tested for depends upon the age of your pet - just as with humans, the older we get, the more tests that have to be run! If your pet's blood chemistries do not show that it can handle an anesthetic procedure, Dr. Greenwell will postpone the procedure and begin investigating the abnormality.
These are the standard pre-anesthetic blood tests we run at
Young Animals 0-4 years of age
Glucose - checks for diabetes and hypoglycemia
BUN - urea nitrogen, kidney function
ALT - liver function,
ALKPHOS - additional liver functions, and checks for signs of Cushing's Disease
Levels of CREATININE, and TOTAL PROTEIN are also checked
ALB
CBC PANEL
Animals 5-7 years of age
Glucose, BUN, ALB, ALKPHOS, CREAT, TP & ALT plus
CALCIUM, CHOL, GGT, PHOS, & TBILI
CBC PANEL
Animals Greater than 8 years of age
The prior mentioned plus checks for levels of:
AMYLASE & LIPASE
CBC PANEL
These are also some of the blood chemistry tests we do in-house to help diagnose your pet's illness when they are not feeling well. Since we perform these tests when your pet is healthy (especially at the time of their spaying or neutering), we will have a good baseline on file should your pet become ill.