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The Veterinary Teaching Hospital is a new facility which
opened September 1996. The building provides 110,000 square feet of
space with effective separation of the large and small animal
clinics. The central core provides space for surgery suites for
small and large animals, clinical pathology, seminar rooms,
administrative area, reception, pharmacy, special medicine and
diagnostics areas. The basement area houses the sterilization
facility and storage.
The climate within the equine hospital is well regulated for
temperature and airflow providing fresh, odor-free air at all
times. The building is wired for computer technology and
remote monitoring of our equine patients. |
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Washington State University,
founded in 1890, is the state’s land-grant research
university. The university includes ten major academic units:
nine colleges (Agriculture and Home Economics; Business and
Economics; Education; Engineering and Architecture; Liberal
Arts; Nursing; Pharmacy; Sciences; and Veterinary Medicine);
and the Graduate School. |
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is in Pullman, but the University also has campuses in
Spokane, the Tri-Cities, and Vancouver. As the land-grant
university for the state of Washington, WSU includes the
Agricultural Research Center, a state and federal research
partnership, and Cooperative Extension, a state-federal-county
partnership in public service/outreach education programming.
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The college of Veterinary
Medicine at Washington State University was founded in 1899
beginning with a single $60 shed. It is the fifth oldest
veterinary college in the United States and sixth oldest among
the veterinary colleges in the U.S. and Canada. From these
modest beginnings, the Washington State University College of
Veterinary Medicine has developed into a multi-million dollar
state-of-the-art complex serving the entire Pacific Northwest. |
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The new Veterinary Teaching
Hospital at Washington State University was completed in
September 1996. The building provides 110,000 square feet of
space for state-of-the-art veterinary care of all animal
species. The central core provides space for surgery suites
for small and large animals, clinical pathology, seminar
rooms, administrative area, reception, pharmacy, special
medicine and diagnostics areas. The basement area houses the
sterilization facility and storage. |
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Large treatment areas are
available for examination of patients. This is often the first
area that clients visit when their patients are admitted to
the Veterinary Teaching Hospital. |
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The breezeway of the clinic
extends the length of the large animal hospital area. On the
left are aisleways leading to treatment and stall areas. On
the right are doors to additional examination and treatment
rooms as well as access to large animal surgery suites. In the
winter months, this large hallway provides an excellent
location for lameness and neurologic evaluations of horses. |
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The paved area behind the large
animal hospital is an excellent location for performing
detailed lameness evaluation of horses. Multiple horses can be
simultaneously examined. |
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Adjacent to the lameness
examination area is a large round pen with dirt footing for
jogging, lunging, or riding horses as part of a complete
examination process. |
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Stalls are constructed of solid
cinder block walls for ease of disinfection and to prevent
interaction of horses with adjacent animals. The front of each
stall consists of heavy wire mesh to allow for optimal
ventilation. |
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The intensive care unit allows
maximum, continual observation of critically ill patients. Two
stalls in the equine ICU are specially designed for treatment
of premature and very sick foals. |
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Radiology has equipment capable
of obtaining quality radiographs (X-rays) of most body parts
on almost any horse from pony foals to adult draft horses.
Special radiographic studies such as myelograms and other
contrast studies can be performed. There is ample room to
safely accommodate anesthetized adult horses. |
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Ultrasound imaging of horses is
available using state-of-the-art two dimensional, M mode,
Doppler, and color-flow technology. Some examples of the
usefulness of this technology include assessment of fetal
viability at any stage of pregnancy, imaging tendons and
ligaments, visualizing internal organs in the chest and
abdomen, and evaluating cardiac function in equine athletes.
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Nuclear scintigraphy is a method
for evaluating metabolic activity of the bones of the horse.
Increased metabolic activity indicates an area of bone
inflammation or disease. This technology is especially useful
for evaluation of horses with back pain or multiple sites of
lameness. |
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Computed tomographic (CT)
imaging is available for the lower limbs and head of most
horses. CT imaging of the entire body can be obtained on young
foals. |
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WSU is one of the few veterinary
hospitals in the world that can perform magnetic resonance (MR)
imaging of horses. We can obtain quality diagnostic images of
the lower limbs and head of most horses. MR imaging of the
entire body is available for young foals. |
