Page 5 - Paws and Hooves - Spring 2016

Without you we wouldn’t have all of this...
As we celebrate 30 years of the RVC’s Queen Mother Hospital for Animals and the generous support it has received from kind people like you, we’re taking this opportunity to highlight the range of equipment your donations fund across the hospital. From diagnosis, through to surgery and recovery your support impacts it all. And this is just a fraction of the cutting-edge equipment used to save lives in the QMHA thanks to you.
A fully equipped room for the RVC Blood Donor Service and a freezer to store a greater amount of donated blood, meaning more patients in need can receive vital blood transfusions at the RVC. The RVC ACT also funded a centrifuge to separate the donated blood into its different parts so that they can be used most effectively.
State-of-the-art oxygen kennels not only provide life-saving oxygen to critically-ill pets, but also allow the control of ambient temperature and humidity, creating the exact individual environment the sickest animals need to recover. These patients can now be effectively stabilised and treated with greater comfort than ever before.
The new underwater treadmill expanded the rehabilitation services available to pets at the QMHA and opened up the bene ts of hydrotherapy to those animals who do not like swimming. The treadmill helps with recovery from surgery and long-term conditions such as arthritis and weight management.
The Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy (CRRT) equipment pictured below saves lives through blood puri cation.
This equipment was used in the rst ever successful treatment of the deadly disease New Forest Syndrome at the RVC. You can see Prof. Dan Chan, the Head of Emergency Medicine at the QMHA using the equipment in this exact case in the image below.
The QMHA’s new ultrasound machine has greatly enhanced image quality, enabling both detection of injuries not visible with the previous machine and assessment of structures previously under the resolution limit, increasing the number of pets that can be diagnosed at the RVC. The new machine is also very quiet making the environment stress free for the animal and reducing the need to sedate or anaesthetise patients.
Sonopet and Brainsight surgery systems enable pets to have cancerous tumours removed from the brain which previously could not have been treated. These systems provide extreme accuracy, reducing the risks of secondary damage to important parts of the brain, making operations faster, less painful and signi cantly increasing survival rates and recovery times.
Photodynamic therapy equipment is used to treat cancer as well as skin and eye conditions. It involves the use of a light- sensitive medication and a light source to destroy abnormal cells.
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