“What’s Your Diagnosis?” Challenge Winners & Answer: Oct-Dec 2011 Thank you to Del Mar Heights Veterinary Hospital for referring this case to us! The patient is a 44-pound,  7-year-old, female Labrador mix presenting for anorexia, lethargy, +/- vomiting for one day. Pain and soft-tissue mass on mid-abdominal palpation. Two views of the […]

        Real-Time Ultrasound is the Wave of the Future There will soon be three options for veterinary ultrasound imaging: 1) refer the case out to a radiologist or cardiologist, 2) have the radiologist or cardiologist come to your clinic for the ultrasound, and 3) have a sonographer perform the study while a radiologist […]

      René Garcia, DVM Staff Veterinarian/ Imaging Intern Dr. René Garcia joined our practice earlier this year as our staff veterinarian and imaging intern, making him in charge of all of our I-131 therapy feline patients. He is the doctor veterinarians and owners discuss cases with, and he helps to oversee all of […]

      Imagine your practice trying to operate without your practice-management software or without your radiograph machine. My intent is not to cause a scare, but rather to make you aware and stress that computers are mechanical devices that will fail. The question is: Can your business risk an outage that could potentially last […]

      For years, radiograph interpretation has been taught the same way. Read the films in to out. Be consistent. Find the abnormalities. Write down the list. There, you have your radiology report. But honestly what do you have? A list. And what good is a list? A list needs to be in the context of […]

      Six Things Specialists Should Know About Your Patient When it comes to referring a case to a specialist, conveying the reason for their visit and the right information can be tricky. After all, regular veterinarians are most familiar with the pet—especially geriatric patients that have been coming to them for many years—and […]

      Dear Colleagues, With the close of the NIH fully funded prostatic carcinoma study this month, I want to thank everyone for making it such a huge success. Both animals and humans stand to benefit from this collaborative project, as many canine and human diseases show similar characteristics. Prostate carcinoma is one such […]

      Open-Source DICOM Viewers and Servers Are you considering a picture archiving and communication system (aka PACS) but are apprehensive due to the investment required?  Just to clarify, PACS is an economical and automated system that makes it easy to store and retrieve images from pretty much anywhere.  Thanks to the open source […]

      2011 CVC – Kansas City: Dr. Seth Wallack Recaps His Digital Radiography Lecture Speaking at CVC in Kansas City this year was an incredible experience. Educating—and often being educated—about veterinary radiology was priceless. Digital radiography still seems to be the buzz word, as I especially learned from the feedback I received following my […]

Did you know VICSD offers a “Pet Taxi” service to and from our hospital? Pets can ride to VICSD in style with our convenient, door-to-door Pet Taxi option. Pet owners drop their pet off at your hospital, and one of our trained Personal Pet Chauffeurs will pick up the pet and bring them to VICSD […]