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Metropolitan Veterinary Consultants
65 Greensboro Road
Hanover, New Hampshire 03755 USA
U.S. Phone 603-643-2926
Fax 603-643-0695
U.K. Phone 0771 800 1038
dsobel@metrovet.com

MVC SUMMER NEWSLETTER 2003

Dear Friends,

It’s been over a year now since I have written to you and I wanted to bring you up to date with some changes and improvements to our services. The growth of MVC continues to be amazing and I am continually rewarded by the excellent clients and patients that I see through your practices as well as the interesting variety of cases you are giving me the opportunity to see.

Veterinary Referral Center of New Hampshire
The referral offerings at CAVES in Concord continue to grow and improve. As most of you know, CAVES is now 24/7. This has provided me the ability to receive and work on critical cases and feel confident that the patients are receiving the best in ongoing care. Dr. Tim Lampman, our surgeon at the referral center is getting busier and busier and the opportunity to refer cases that have both medical and surgical components to us in Concord provides clients convenience as well as the confidence of 24 hour critical care. I am currently receiving cases on Mondays and Thursdays at the clinic and am available to consult on transfers almost always on short notice. More information can be found at capareaves.org. I urge you to contact either Tim or myself if you have cases for referral or transfer.

As a scheduling matter, my two days at the center in Concord does mean that I am off the road during that time. However I am still available the remainder of the time for on-site clinic visits. Please call to discuss scheduling or availability.

New Technologies

Up until now, we have been able to perform excellent bronchoscopies and bronchoalveolar lavages on the very small and larger patients. This new scope will be perfect for medium sized dogs. Also, a new ultra-slim gastroduodenoscope will allow for very complete upper and lower gastrointestinal exams on all size patients. Sure, I’m always a sucker for new toys, but these new devices I’m sure will absolutely be very beneficial to patients.

Operative Endoscopies

I want to list a few of the newer operative endoscopic procedures that we are doing more routinely both in mobile service and at the Referral Center in Concord. Not all of these procedures are able to be performed on all patients but with newer technologies and experience the patient range will be increasing. Please call to discuss cases for referral at any time.

The recent addition of some new equipment has continued to increase the range of offerings of MVC. In the past several months, we have added a new diode laser to the equipment in Concord. This diode, at a wavelength of 980nm, is ideal for both endoscopic and general surgical applications. This device, along with our other laser at 810nm, gives us a huge range of potential surgical and endoscopic applications and ensures that we will always have the right tool for the right job.

We have also invested in a new small diameter bronchoscope to ensure that we are able to adequately evaluate the lower airways of our medium sized patients.

We have also just received delivery of a new Olympus 7.8mm gastroduodenoscope. This increases the distance into the small bowel that we can go with complete ease and comfort to the patient post operatively.

Recently I presented two papers at the spring meeting of the Veterinary Surgical Laser Society meeting in Myrtle Beach. Presented were my preliminary evaluation of endoscopic laser resection of nasal neoplasia and transitional cell carcinoma. I’m not going to go into detail here, but suffice to say that there is great promise for these technologies in both of these locations. Let me know if you want to discuss cases for referral.


VISA/Mastercard

At the request of several clinics I am experimenting with the use of Visa/Mastercard for payment for MVC services. If you want to set up a credit card account with me, let me know and I’ll fax or send the requisite form.


Upcoming Lectures

In September I will be giving a one day introduction to the use of the video otoendoscope system in Tampa, Florida. Information can be found at the web site of ESS, endoscopy.com. In November I will be doing another one day continuing education program in southern England for the regional BSAVA chapter along with my friend and colleague Philip Lhermette. If anyone would like more information about upcoming CE (not just those involving endoscopy) give me a call and I’ll try and help.


BEST WISHES,

Dave