East River Equine, LLC

02/03/2025

Hey everyone! Hope you have been enjoying the somewhat warmer weather. Just a few announcements as we enter February.

** Dr. Kara will be attending OphthoX in California from Thursday, February 6th, to Sunday, February 9th. During this time, she will be unavailable for emergency calls. The conference is focused on treatment of eye issues in horses and procedures (enucleation, SPL, etc.).

** We are now scheduling into March with a few limited spots still available at the end of February. Please start scheduling your appointments and lameness evaluations early so we can get your horses ready for the spring and summer!

** Lastly, with foaling season here and a busy emergency weekend, we wanted to remind you of the services we offer here at East River.
- We are happy to see emergency calls (retained placenta, new foal exam, etc.) if needed. Please try contacting your reproductive veterinarian first.
- We do not accept mare and foal hospitalization due to staffing and time availability. We also do not foal out mares. If your foal requires hospitalization, we will refer you to U of M, ISU, or DLAC.
- We can do stall side IgG testing and carry HyGamm plasma in stock to administer when needed.
- If your mare and foal find themselves in another situation (cut, colic, etc.), we are happy to provide care and assistance.
- Lastly, we do not provide breeding services (mare or stallion), but can provide vaccines, transabdominal ultrasound, and wellness evaluations on your mare.

Hope everyone starts enjoying the nice weather and please contact us with any questions or to get on our schedule.

01/01/2025

What a blessing 2024 has been. We are so grateful to our many clients and patients who have allowed us to be part of their year and family. We are so thankful to each and every one of you for supporting us.

We’ve added every part of my 5 year plan in just 6 months and hope to continue to grow the practice to better suit each of you.

The last surprise of 2024 is that we added in house ACTH and Insulin testing with our TruForma machine. This evaluates for Cushing’s disease and Equine Metabolic Syndrome (EMS). We have been comparing its results to our reference lab Cornell and are very happy with the consistency. This will be able to provide us same day results to determine whether steroids are safe to use or not. Ask us about it at your next exam.

Happy New Year from us at East River Equine and we look forward to 2025!

11/21/2024

We are set and ready for the winter! With the wonderful weather yesterday, we were able to utilize our new indoor for trotting. Rain, shine, or blizzard, we’ll be able to evaluate your horse!

We also are very excited to announce that we now offer gastroscopy and an upper respiratory workup. Our upper respiratory scope allows us to do non-invasive tracheal washes. We also can perform BALs to complete the evaluation.

We are still scheduling out 2-3 weeks so please plan ahead for appointments!

11/12/2024

What a great past week! Even though Dr. Kara has been out of office, she has been attending an ISELP (International Society of Equine Locomotor Pathology) module in Lexington, KY, focusing on the carpus, metacarpus, and fetlock. She learned how to advance her diagnostic techniques (specifically ultrasound) along with meeting up with some veterinarians from Littleton Equine (Dr. French, Dr. Deacon, and Dr. Simon). There was also time to do a little sightseeing. She is very excited to use these advanced diagnostic techniques on your horses.

The biggest thing stressed at the ISELP module was the importance of finding the problem and diagnosing it to ensure your treatment is correct. This is something that is paramount to our practice and helps define our intensive lameness evaluations.

She will be back in office on Wednesday, November 13th, and able to resume her normal emergency schedule.

10/22/2024

Hello everyone! As the season gets colder, we are still crazy busy here. Thank you to all of our wonderful clients that we get to see every day. Below are a couple dates when Dr. Kara will be unavailable for emergencies over the next couple months:

- October 25th-27th
- November 6th-12th

As always, she'll be available by phone if needed.

We are also excited to announce that we will be adding gastroscope and upper respiratory scope to our equipment. These will allow us to check your horse for ulcers, evaluate the guttural pouches for strangles, check the airway function of your horse, and perform non-invasive transtracheal washes (TTW). We will also be offering bronchoalveolar lavages (BAL) to provide a full respiratory evaluation for you and your horse! We will start scheduling for these appointments in November 2024.

The picture is of Dr. Kara ultrasounding in a wet lab with Dr. Jean-Marie Denoix during the recent trip to New York. Morgan and Dr. Kara were also able to practice using the gastroscope to reach the pylorus of the stomach quicker and get a better overall evaluation of the stomach.

09/26/2024

We’re excited to announce that we will now be offering in house bloodwork! We will have the ability to run both CBCs and Chemistries. These machines give us the opportunity to provide immediate results for things listed below:
- Septic or inflamed joint
- Infection (respiratory and otherwise)
- Tying up
- Baseline bloodwork
- Creatinine and kidney values prior to Osphos
- Many more!!
The machines are up and running, ready to use on our patients.

Also, Morgan and I will be out of office from September 26th to September 29th. As always, I’ll be available by phone if needed! We are going to New York to learn how to better use another piece of new equipment we will be announcing soon!

08/18/2024

Hope everyone is having a wonderful weekend!

Thank you all for a great month! I want to warn everyone that we are booking out 1-2 weeks in advance. Please plan ahead with your appointment scheduling to make sure that we can get you in in an adequate amount of time.

Also, we have some very exciting new services coming to East River Equine, LLC. We will update here as we get the services up and running. We are continuing to work toward meeting your horse's needs!

07/27/2024

Hello everyone! Thank you for a wonderful first few months of practice. We have definitely been keeping busy!

Just wanted to give a heads up, Dr. Kara will be unavailable for emergency calls tomorrow, July 26th, 2024. She will be attending Rocking n Rolling for Robert V. If anyone is looking for a barrel race or event to attend tomorrow, we strongly encourage you to look into it! Great cause for even better people. As always, she'll be reachable by phone if needed. Thank you for understanding.

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05/18/2024

We are set up and excited to see everyone today! Just a reminder, our open house is from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm at our clinic location, 2606 34th Avenue, Brookings, SD. Come by for a cupcake and tour our new facility!

04/27/2024

It's finally happening! East River Equine, LLC, will be opening end of May 2024. We are happy to provide equine care ranging from sports medicine to general wellness to hospitalization. An open house will be held on May 18th, 2024, from 10:00 am - 2:00 pm. Please spread the word and come tour our new facility!