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  The RVC Blood Donor Programme Reaches 20-Year Milestone

  The RVC Blood Donor Programme is vital to the everyday functioning of the Queen Mother Hospital for Animals. The blood products it provides allow our specialist clinical teams to help hundreds of animals every year.
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  Latest In Gait Assessment Technology with the Orthopaedic Service

  Recently, thanks to the kind generosity of the Animal Care Trust (ACT), the RVC’s registered charity, a grant was awarded to upgrade the now out of date pressure mat, to allow the team to expand their lameness diagnosis and clinical monitoring through a state-of-the-art instrumented dog treadmill.
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  Resilient Rocco’s Road to Recovery

  A three-year-old longhaired male entire Chihuahua was mauled by a large dog, leading to severe injuries, including pelvic fractures, body wall rupture, testicular avulsion and acute kidney injury. He has bounced back and is enjoying his life, thanks to the specialist teams working together at RVC Small Animal Referrals
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  Helping Referred Patients with a New Fluoroscopy Unit

  RVC Small Animal Referrals has upgraded its fluoroscopy unit, which offers benefits for referred patients and their owners, research and veterinary education. Fluoroscopy is a specialist diagnostic imaging modality, enabling capture of real-time moving pictures of inside of the body.
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  RVC’s Pandemic Puppies Team: Shining a light on contemporary challenges in canine welfare

  Dr Rowena Packer, Lecturer in Companion Animal Behaviour and Welfare Science, reflects on the contributions of RVC research to understanding the dynamic world of dog welfare during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond
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  Small Animal Hydrotherapy

  The RVC delivers hydrotherapy in a purpose-built centre next to the Queen Mother Hospital for Animals. An underwater treadmill was updated this year. The Veterinary Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation Service works closely with the Neurology and Neurosurgery Service, as well as other clinical teams, to ensure the best possible outcome for each patient.
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  Sentinel Lymph Node Mapping – Leading the Way in Veterinary Oncology

  Sentinel lymph node (SLN) mapping is a diagnostic tool commonplace in human oncology and developing in veterinary oncology. It increases the accuracy of detection of metastatic disease whilst minimising patient morbidity.
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  A Week with the Neurology and Neurosurgery Service

  The Neurology and Neurosurgery Service at the RVC Small Animal Referrals sees a wide variety of cases each week. We take you through a week in the life of the service, through a selection of cases
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  A Decade of Extracorporeal Therapy

  It is ten years since the RVC began delivering extracorporeal therapies for cats and dogs with kidney injury, immune-mediated disease and certain toxicities. More than 50 patients have received the advanced treatments, most of which would have died without it.
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  Spotlight on Imaging-Guided Procedures

  Diagnostic imaging has developed at an amazing pace in the last 20 years. We can now obtain hugely detailed images of the body that continuously help the RVC's Queen Mother Hospital for Animals offer better patient care