East River Equine, LLC

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!