🚧 🛠 Construction is underway at STATVet on Riverside! We can't wait to see you in south Tulsa in a few short months. Open all day, 7 days a week on Cherry Street. 🍒
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🐾 Oklahoma State University veterinary student, Casey, got to help Dr. Hough retrieve two socks from the stomach of Charlie, a 4 month old Basset Hound.
🐾 Charlie was referred to STATVet by her family veterinarian with concern that she might need surgery. They had attempted to retrieve the socks by inducing vomiting, but Charlie failed to bring up the foreign material.
🐾 Dr. Hough performed an abdominal ultrasound to ensure all fabric was confined to the stomach and had not moved downstream into the intestines (which would require surgery). Fortunately, Charlie was able to avoid surgery, and two socks were removed from the stomach using an endoscope.
🐾 Endoscopy is a painless and relatively non-invasive method of removing foreign bodies from the stomach before they cause bigger problems, requiring hospitalization or surgery. Endoscopy is generally faster, safer, and less expensive than surgery.
🐾 Charlie did wonderful during her visit, and was able to go home with her family the very same afternoon. No more sock eating for you, Miss Charlie! 🧦
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Attempted burglary at STATVet at 2:50am this morning. Fortunately, they were not successful and the interior of our practice is fine. We are open and seeing patients as usual.
Person on camera is male and spanish-speaking. Any neighboring businesses or residences with camera footage or information, please contact us.
And for future reference, there is nothing to steal of value in this building. Any drugs or cash someone thinks they want are secured and inaccessible. You're only harming a local business owner and the pets we're trying to take care of.
Tulsa Midtown Neighbors Tulsa Police Department
🐾 Did you know we've added ✨️endoscopy✨️ at STATVet?🐾
🐾 This patient was referred to STATVet by her family veterinarian for removal of an esophageal foreign body. She'd swallowed the knobby end of a Nylabone whole and it lodged in her esophagus just above her heart.
🐾 Dr. Hough removed the Nylabone with the scope by passing a Foley catheter beyond it, inflating the balloon, and pulling everything out via the mouth. This kiddo did excellent and was able to go home the same afternoon.
🐾 Esophageal foreign bodies are incredibly dangerous and can lead to perforation of the esophagus. If not removed promptly, they can rapidly become life-threatening.
🐾 Endoscopy can also be used to remove foreign bodies from the airways or the stomach, to investigate ulcers in the stomach, or to biopsy the stomach, intestine, and colon in pets with gastrointestinal symptoms. It is minimally invasive, fast, and painless and helps to avoid surgery in many cases.
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Do you even work in vet med if you haven't taken an abscess to the face? 🫣
4th year veterinary student, Chris, opened and flushed a large abscess on a kitten under Dr. Cackler's guidance, and Leanne found herself in the wrong place at the wrong time! #alwayskeepyourmouthclosed
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🎣 When you accidently catch an Aussie puppy instead of a small mouth bass, we'll fix her up in a jiffy. 💜 #YourPetsComfortIsUrgent
🐾 Can you guess what this 100 pound dog ate that caused a bowel obstruction??
🐾 We could see fabric present in the pylorus of the stomach and in the small intestine on x-rays. This giant, sweet pooch had been vomiting for about 36hrs before she was seen at STATVet.
🐾 Dr. Cackler performed emergency surgery including a gastrotomy (incision into the stomach) and enterotomy (incision into the small intestine) to remove about 24 inches of fabric from her GI tract.
🐾 The fabric turned out to be 4 pairs of Victoria's Secret panties! 🩲🩲🩲🩲
🐾 Articles of clothing including underwear and socks are extremely common foreign bodies in dogs. This pet did beautifully through surgery and anesthetic recovery, and got to go home with her family the same evening. We saw her two weeks later for staple removal and she's back to herself!
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