The first day at WSU's Veterinary Teaching Hospital prepares fourth-year veterinary students for clinical rotations by throwing them into simulated scenarios with stuffed patients and seasoned actors as clients.
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May 3, 2021 These two orphaned fawns were brought last spring to Washington State University’s Veterinary Teaching Hospital. Every year, many healthy fawns are mistaken as orphans and brought to the hospital. If you suspect wildlife is orphaned or injured call a wildlife rehabilitator first.
By Josh Babcock, College of Veterinary Medicine
As the weather continues to warm, veterinarians at Washington State University are asking anyone who suspects orphaned or injured wildlife may be in need of care to call a wildlife rehabilitator before intervening.
Dr. Marcie Logsdon, an exotics veterinarian at WSU’s Veterinary Teaching Hospital, said it is easy to mistake a healthy baby for one that may be orphaned or injured.
April 21, 2021
A dog receives an ultrasound inside the Intensive Care Unit at WSU’s Veterinary Teaching Hospital. On average, the hospital sees 10-12 emergency cases daily, or about 4,000 to 5,000 per year.
By Josh Babcock, College of Veterinary Medicine
Washington State University’s Veterinary Teaching Hospital is now the only veterinary teaching facility in the west and one of just a handful in the country to be certified as a Level I facility by the Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care Society (VECCS).
According to the VECCS, a Level I emergency and critical care facility provides small animal emergency care to patients 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, and always has a Diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care employed full time and available for consultation on-site or by phone.
April 20, 2021
Small animal surgery veterinarian Dr. Boel Fransson checks in on Dodger the day before his second surgery. Dodger was diagnosed with a rare liver shunt that resulted in toxins in his blood. By placing two stents in the shunt Dr. Fransson is hopeful Dodger’s liver will begin to fully function.
By Josh Babcock, College of Veterinary Medicine
The Peterson family made a commitment to Dodger when they brought him into their home just more than a year ago as a small, 14-week-old puppy from Puerto Rico.
So, when Washington State University soft tissue surgery veterinarian Dr. Boel Fransson recently told the Petersons the mixed-breed street dog who never had a home was “living on borrowed time,” the family knew what they had to do.