HIRING EVENT!! Mark your calendars! Your future in veterinary medicine is waiting!! Get your resume' updated! Entry level positions are available. Excellent opportunity for individuals with excellent customer service skills to work with animals and the people that love them. We will train the right candidate! Please share!
CONGRATULATIONS Dr. Erika Militana board certified veterinary anesthesiologist
Scroll down to learn more about Veterinary Anesthesiologists and what it takes to become a veterinary specialist.
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WHAT DOES A VETERINARY ANESTHESIOLOGIST DO?
🐾 Anesthetic management of all kinds of animal patients for a diagnostic or surgical procedure
🐾 Anesthetic management of animals for critical care, emergency procedures or resuscitation
🐾 Pharmacology of anesthetic sedatives, anti-inflammatory agents, sedatives, analgesics, drugs used to treat other conditions, drugs that affect the respiratory or cardiovascular function
🐾 Monitoring of the patient
🐾 Pain management
🐾 Ventilation management
🐾 Management of metabolic disturbances, fluid, and electrolyte therapy
🐾 Local/regional techniques in anesthesia
🐾 Diagnosis test results Monitoring of anesthetic equipment
WHAT IS A VETERINARY SPECIALIST?
In veterinary medicine, as in human medicine, some doctors choose to specialize in an area of interest. A veterinary specialist is a veterinarian who has undergone years of advanced education and training in a certain field or discipline and earned board certification.
To earn the designation of “board-certified specialist” veterinarians must attend undergraduate school, attend veterinary school, complete an internship (1-2 years), and complete a residency (2-4 years) in their chosen field. These residency programs require veterinarians to meet specific training and caseload requirements, perform research in their specialty field, and have that research published. They must also pass a set of rigorous examinations administered by the board of the specialty college. It is only after the completion of all prior steps does a veterinarian earn the title of “Veterinary Diplomate” and become a board-certified veterinary specialist.
Watch while a dogs heart rhythm returns to normal after a pacemaker is implanted by our Cardiology team this week ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Central Hospital is proud to have top notch staff members. From our ICU techs to our Emergency Room crew and all of our support staff, everyone is expected to be at the top of their game when it comes to caring for our patients. Regular group training sessions, whether used as a refresher course or making sure our newest staff members get the skills necessary to be the most qualified are required for our entire team. Even our doctors attend continuing education and training seminars on a regular basis. This training session covered blood sampling catheters, methods for obtaining blood pressures and cross matching blood samples before transfus ions. If you are a qualified technician and are interested in working at the highest level visit our website to apply for a position.
Our Ophthalmology Department was pleased to participate in the American College of Veterinary Ophthalmolgists and StokesRx National Service Animal Eye Exam event this past month. This is a philanthropic event that provides free, ocular screening eye exams to qualified Service & Working Animals each May. These exams are provided by members of the American College of Veterinary Ophthalmologists who choose to volunteer their time and resources. Both of our ophthalmologist, Dr. Corey Schmidt and Dr. Dan Dorbandt participated this year. The program benefits formally trained working animals who selflessly care for us all.
This program would not be successful without the generosity of our board certified ACVO Diplomates who donate their time, staff and services and the generous name-sake sponsor, Stokes Pharmacy, additional sponsors and non-profit supporters.
Teamwork Rescue
Central Hospital was honored to have teamed up with Shore Haven Veterinary Hospital and Rescue Dog Rocks last week to help them manage the intake of almost 30 dogs rescued after the hurricane in Houston, TX into Southern Connecticut. Rescue Dogs Rock organized the transfer and a team from Shore Haven and several members of our Emergency Room team volunteered their time to manage the immediate medical care of the dogs at Shore Haven. They have a beautiful facility!! Almost half of the dogs have heartworm that will be treated, but we were lucky that only two had medical issues that required surgery. If you would like to donate to Rescue Dogs Rock visit their website www.rescuedogsrocknyc.org . And please join us in welcoming these pups to Connecticut. They were such a nice group of dogs and oh so grateful ❤️
We are looking forward to many more years!
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Emmit is enjoying his therapy on the underwater treadmill in our Animal Rehab Department. Dr. Melvyn Pond did TPLO surgery to stabilize his knee 4 weeks ago, after he tore his cranial cruciate ligament. Developed by Dr. Barclay Slocum, the TPLO surgery was first considered a radical procedure for addressing canine ACL injuries. Now in existence for over 20 years, the surgery has proven itself, time and time again to be effective. Dr. Pond has performed this surgery since the time it was introduced which means he's probably done it over FIVE THOUSAND times!!!The philosophy behind the TPLO surgery is to completely change the dynamics of the dog’s knee so that the torn ligament becomes irrelevant to the stability of the knee
Do you have a dog or know a dog whose had surgery by Dr. Pond? We bet if you ask around ... You do!!
WE LOVE YOUR DOGS!!! Happy National Dog Day from your friends at Central Hospital!
Poor Dot ruptured BOTH of her cruciate ligaments earlier this month, and could not walk without assistance, two weeks ago Dr. Pond performed bilateral TPLO (tibial plateau leveling osteotomy) surgery to repair her knees. Today was her first day of rehab in our underwater treadmill!! She's doing wonderfully and expected to be as good as new in 4 more weeks. Call us to learn more about TPLO or Rehabilitation at 203-865-0878.
This is Martini! Martini is a King Charles Cavalier that was diagnosed with a condition known as Chiari Malformation along with Syringomyelia that often accompanies this disease. She had corrective surgery and came to us after for rehabilitation. When she first started her rehab last Spring she could barely walk 5 steps without falling over. Look at her now! Go Martini!!
Meet Abby....This little dog beat the odds... Thanks to our excellent care, her committed family AND TRUPANION Pet Insurance!! She was hit by a car on Monday, January 26 during a snowstorm and sustained massive head trauma. We thought for sure her back was broken as well but thankfully X-rays showed no fractures. We had three generations of her family crying in the exam room pleading with us to save her. It was a terrible accident, snow buildup around a gate had caused it not to close, but the fast acting driver that accidentally hit her and the North Haven Animal Control got her and the oldest member of her family to us within a half hour and we began treating her immediately. We soon learned that she had pet insurance and submitted a pre-approval request to TRUPANION who replied within half an hour saying they would pay for 90% of all treatment necessary excluding the deductible and some other incidental charges. Her care would be in the thousands of dollars and we had no idea if she could survive. She needed a feeding tube and constant medical care for over a week. But she made slow and steady improvement and after 7 days our Canine Rehabilitation department started working with her to get her ready to go home. Here she is on Thursday 2/5 prancing around the hospital. She went home on Friday. She is still not at 100% but we're hoping she makes a full recovery. The odds were stacked against her, it was difficult to determine how she would respond to treatment, even after thousands of dollars in care. Very different decisions may have had to be made but because her family had pet insurance we were able to provide the best possible care to her and her family for as long as she needed it! Keep up the good work Abby!! We love you!
Here's Gloria enjoying her first time in our underwater treadmill!! She had a TPLO surgery done by Dr. Pond a couple of weeks ago because she had torn her anterior cruciate ligament and has been recuperating here at the hospital with us! She started her rehab this week with our rehab tech Jill and she loves it!
Our friend Ann Marie is a vet tech that works with Animal Behavior Specialist, Dr. Lindell. She's also an animal trainer and she provided us with some great videos to share with you! Here she is playing The Cup Game with her Saluki/Shepherd mix Shayna! And yes .... you can teach your cat tricks too!!! Who wants to see the video of her cat giving High Five???
One year ago today we moved after 40 years from New Haven to North Haven!! We never skipped a beat and saw our first emergency 10 minutes after we opened!! We've welcomed new specialists and technicians and sadly said goodbye to a few as well... We're finally unpacked!! We hope... And we look forward to serving the community for many more years. Thanks to everyone for your continued support!!
