It's been a very exciting week at Bayfield Animal Hospital! We try to stay very current in our medical knowledge, our surgical procedures and ultimately, our hospital equipment. This helps us provide the BEST possible care to you and your pets!
Our most recent newest additions are pictured, and we're very excited about them.
On the right, you can see our new Idexx diagnostic equipment. We are the proud owners of a new chemistry and CBC machine, an upgrade from our previous equipment. The new chemistry machine still allows us to perform many more tests in-house, saving you the time and expense of sending blood to an outside laboratory. In an emergency situation, it's very important to get reliable results as soon as we can. Our new CBC machine for blood counts gives us results faster than ever before - an important thing in an emergency!
On the left, you can see our brand new microscope. This microscope provides excellent detail and clear pictures to help us look at many different things:
Here are a few examples from our new microscope this week!
Our most recent newest additions are pictured, and we're very excited about them.
On the right, you can see our new Idexx diagnostic equipment. We are the proud owners of a new chemistry and CBC machine, an upgrade from our previous equipment. The new chemistry machine still allows us to perform many more tests in-house, saving you the time and expense of sending blood to an outside laboratory. In an emergency situation, it's very important to get reliable results as soon as we can. Our new CBC machine for blood counts gives us results faster than ever before - an important thing in an emergency!
On the left, you can see our brand new microscope. This microscope provides excellent detail and clear pictures to help us look at many different things:
- Stool samples for parasites
- Urine samples for infection or evidence of stones or inflammation
- Blood for parasites or signs of bone marrow or immune disease
- Masses to help guide treatment decisions - do we remove it or not?
- Skin scrapes to look for mites and other parasites in itchy dogs
Here are a few examples from our new microscope this week!
This is a picture of a needle aspirate of a new mass on a dog's belly. The red cells are red blood cells. The purple cells are fairly round with a dark circular center. They have dark pink to purple dots inside the cells. Some of these dark dots have leaked out and are in the areas around the cells. These dots are little pockets of histamine. These cells are mast cells, and the tumor is a mast cell tumor. We recommend removing these types of tumor as soon as possible because although many are cured with surgery, some can be very aggressive.
This is a microscope view of stained urine. Look the clear, box-like object (arrow). That is a struvite crystal. These crystals can be seen with infection and inflammation. They may also indicate a very common type of bladder stone. These crystals can settle out of some urine if it sits too long, which is why we always ask for a fresh sample if possible!
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