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Services

A variety of routine & non-routine treatments

What can we do for you?

The Equine Vet Clinic provides a 24 hour/365 days a year ambulatory service for routine as well as emergency attention for your horse.

The Clinic also boasts modern inpatient facilities, equipped with state of the art equipment for diagnostic investigations and advanced procedures. Many of the routine services we offer, such as vaccinations, dental work and examinations, can be performed on visits to your horse. 

Services & Facilities

Services & Facilities

We have a comprehensive range of in-house facilities including radiography, ultrasonography and gastroscopy.  

Zone Visits

Zone Visits

In order to increase efficiencies that we could pass directly on to our clients, we have introduced Zone Visits.

Referral

Referral

The Equine vet Clinic welcomes a wide range of referral work including surgical, medical and imaging. 

  • Ophthalmology
  • Surgery
  • Emergencies-Out of Hours

Ophthalmology

Expert Equine Eye Consultant - Brian Patterson

Equine eye consultant, Brian Patterson BVM&S Cert VOphthal MRCVS,  works alongside the Equine Vet Clinic as a consultant on eye cases that require expert advice, diagnostics and therapies.

Brian, an RCVS recognised advanced practitioner in veterinary ophthalmology, provides an equine opthamology service partnering practices throughout the UK.

Brian Graduated from the University of Edinburgh in 1996 and completed a 3 year residency at the University of Glasgow in equine medicine and surgery, with special reference to ophthalmology. Brian now holds the RCVS certificate in Veterinary Ophthalmology, one of only a few full time ophthalmologists in the United Kingdom specialising in equine ophthalmology.

He is director of Animal Eye Consultants Ltd and a member of the Equine International Ophthalmology Consortium.

Surgery

My Horse Needs Surgery

We have an operating theatre at Brown Egg Farm. This enables the practice to provide a wide range of surgical procedures from arthroscopy (key-hole surgery of joints) to delicate eye surgery.

Anaesthetised horses present unique challenges due to their weight, size and fractious nature. Following careful clinical assessment and injection of drugs to induce anaesthesia, the patient is winched from the padded ‘knock-down’ box on to the surgical table. This is anatomically designed to support the horse, protecting the head, neck and spine and minimising pressure on vital muscles. A large tube is inserted via the mouth through the larynx to gases that maintain the anaesthesia.

All anaesthetised horses are constantly monitored by an experienced veterinary anaesthetist, who records the heart rate and rhythm, the respiratory rate, and level of anaesthesia. Blood pressure is also continuously measured and appropriate medication given should it fall during the surgery.  The patients also receive intravenous fluids throughout, to prevent dehydration.

It is unfortunate that, despite such intensive monitoring and care, complications can occur. These range from mild muscle damage, caused by the horse’s own weight pressing on its ‘downside’ muscles, through to a horse that injures his spine or fractures a leg when recovering from the anaesthetic. Complications are very rare less than 0.5%. 

Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any further questions or download our factsheets.

Emergencies-Out of Hours

In the event of an emergency please call this number

Emergency Number - 07795 843252

Our emergency phone lines will be answered by a specialist medical call handler who will take your details and transfer these to the vet nearest your location.

This means you may not see your usual vet on some occasions out of normal working hours, but all medical records and invoicing will still be from your normal daytime veterinary clinic.

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With effect from 1st of September 2023, we have been working to develop a service that:

Aims to deliver better response times for clients and their horses.

Provides three layers of backup for those situations where we have to cope with multiple emergencies occurring at the same time.

Provides dedicated equine vets.

Provides separate vets covering the hospitalised cases and those out on yards.

Reduce the mileage travelled per call to reduce our carbon footprint.

Improve the on-call rota demand for our vets to reduce the long working shifts required to provide 24 hour care and advice, 365 days a year, for your horses.