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Telemedicine
- Access to the worlds's best vets
Doctors have always consulted
each other to establish the best treatments. Today, through
the miracle of broadband internet, a specialist located
hundreds of miles away can be brought into the doctor’s
office - virtually - through a live interactive system
of sharing and discussing medical data, images, and patient
files. This is Telemedicine.
Telemedicine is the practice
of medicine, or veterinary medicine, over long distance
by means of special telecommunications equipment.
In veterinary medicine, as
with humans, there are specialists in virtually every field
and they are available to help with difficult cases. For
example, a board certified surgeon can be consulted about
an unusual fracture, a board certified radiologist can
be consulted for guidance in understanding a complicated
X-ray image or unusual ultrasound finding, a board certified
internist can give valuable guidance in managing a diagnostic
challenge and a board certified oncologist can help manage
a patient with cancer.
 Unfortunately,
in veterinary medicine, there aren’t that many of these
specialists and those that do exist are scattered around
the country in university veterinary teaching hospitals
or large specialty centers such as Gulf
Coast Veterinary Specialists, and the Veterinary
Referral Center of North Texas.
In the past, because of time
zone differences and the fact that specialists have their
own patients to treat, contacting a board certified veterinary
specialist was often not practical. Not any more. Today
we can send X-ray images, ultrasounds, endoscopy pictures,
microscope pictures of cells, and so on to any veterinary
specialist, anywhere in the world... instantly. This allows
specialists to examine data at their own pace and return
their findings without interruption.
With a special telecommunications
set up, the veterinarians at CVMG have almost instant access
to the best veterinary specialists in the world. Telemedicine
is indeed a technological miracle and it’s available right
now at CVMG for the better treatment of your pet.
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