Highline Veterinary Orthopedics

17/06/2024

Happy Father’s Day to our girl dad! We love you! 💜 Love, Carolyn and Maryn

26/05/2024

Happy Saturday! Another puppy femur fracture to help fix up, with the mixed animal team at Anderson Veterinary. It is fun to share stories comparing our similar life “on the road” performing canine orthopedics vs. their life on the road as cow vets

21/05/2024

Good help is easy to find

15/05/2024

A good recovery is what we care about!

📱 Being available is important to us, that is why we make sure owners can contact us 24/7 with questions or concerns following surgery with us. While not every issue can be addressed virtually, being able to reach our team to discuss recovery and rehab helps alleviate minor concerns, clarify instructions or redirect major concerns for in person DVM recheck exams. 💫

14/05/2024

New foster “clinic kitty” at our home base surgery prep site, helping us prepare for our next day of surgeries! 🐱

13/01/2024

Happy retirement, Dr. Berndt!

We thought we would make it official and post it on here... Dr. Berndt has officially retired. We had a great time celebrating her and all her hard working years one last time!

24/12/2023

We want to wish a happy holiday season to all friends of HIGHLINE Veterinary Orthopedics. 🎄

As 2023 comes to a close, we want to thank all our veterinary partners and pet families for your continued trust in our surgical care. 🐶

This year, we were able to help over 675 pets with advanced surgical care, including 331 TPLO procedures, 46 fracture repairs and a diverse variety of other procedures. We logged over 35,000 miles in our truck providing mobile specialty veterinary surgery to pet owners of Minnesota and Iowa.

We look forward to continued growth, friendship and provision of accessible specialty care in 2024!

HIGHLINE Veterinary Orthopedics. 🦴
Dr. Dane Tatarniuk DVM MS DACVS
Dr. Casey Rabbe DVM

02/12/2023

Spot the clinic helper inspecting our gear! 🐱

02/12/2023

We appreciate our partnership with South Metro Animal Emergency, providing emergency orthopedic care.

27/10/2023

🌟Patient Spotlight! 🦴 🌟

Meet BARLEY. 🐶
Barley unfortunately sustained a cranial cruciate ligament tear in fall of 2022. We were fortunate to have the opportunity to fix her knee with tibial plateau leveling osteotomy (TPLO) surgery in collaboration with Fairview Animal Medical Center in Owatonna, MN. Shortly into her recovery after the first TPLO, Barley injured her other leg and we revisited and performed a second TPLO. Needless to say, two orthopedic recoveries in the fall is tough for a dog that loves to hunt.

But with the diligent aftercare from Barley’s dad, along with the consistent results of the TPLO technique, Barley was able to rehabilitate back to strength.

Her 2023 update: “Hey Dr. Dane...Barley has had a super successful hunting season so far...she is doing awesome!!! We have been up grouse hunting on the north shore, north dakota, northern MN and Saskatchewan!”

💙

15/10/2023

We had another great week at the annual American College of Veterinary Surgeon conference in Louisville, KY.

Continuing education and time amongst our peers allows us to learn, expand, innovate and reflect on how to provide the best quality surgical care to the pets we serve.

27/09/2023

Another option for protecting surgical incisions post-knee surgery in dogs 🙂

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15/09/2023

The best message board in the midwest from our friends at Litke's!

06/09/2023

Nova has a new home.After more than 55 years of caring for you in our original brick building, we needed more space!  We've been hard at work for the last year, and we can't wait to take care of you in our new clinic. Here's even more good news: we're right across the street!  Our new address is 9...

27/08/2023

Yesterday was National Dog Day!

Pictured are our two Highline canine teammates, Connor (golden, 7) & Mirabel (black lab, 1) - looking their best!

17/08/2023

From 5lb to 450lb.

🐶 On Monday, we performed a pan-carpal arthrodesis on a dog weighing 5lb - using a 2.0mm/1.5mm locking pancarpal arthrodesis plate

🐴 On Tuesday, we repaired a comminuted olecrannon (elbow) fracture on a 450lb weanling foal - using a caudally applied 4.5mm locking compression plate with a mix of 4.5 cortical, 5.5 cortical and 5.0 locking screws plus a lateral 3.5mm broad locking compression plate.

From each end of the veterinary spectrum, we can fix them all.

05/08/2023

mCCWO: modified cranial closing wedge osteotomy

This technique is best utilized when there is an excessive tibial plateau slope, often >40 as preTPA. In excessive slope (eTPA) cases, classic TPLO results in a major rotation that limits bone on bone contact, accentuating forces over a smaller surface area and compromising construct stability.

The mCCWO technique is planned using vPOP pre-operative orthopedic planning software to ensure accuracy of a plan, followed by use of IMEX cross cut guides to help control accuracy of the cut. A wedge/triangle of bone is removed from the front of the tibia, the fracture gap reduced, and procedure stabilized with a pin-cerclage tension band and bone plate (in this case, Everost Summit style locking compression plate). In this manner, TPA can be reduced from 40 to ~5 (as desired in TPLO).

02/08/2023

70lb golden, plate-rod fixation, 3.5mm broad locking compression plate.

Appreciate the collaboration with our DVM colleagues/clinics, and the opportunity to use their wonderful operating rooms!

26/07/2023

New home base is in action!

This is the location where our team cleans, sterilizes and organizes our equipment and supplies daily.

We take pride in offering the high quality surgical care, and it all starts here.

26/07/2023

2.7mm locking compression plate with 2.0mm intra-medullary pin for fixation of a mid-diaphyseal transverse fracture in a 24lb Aussie pup 🐶 🦴

18/07/2023

2.7mm locking compression plate for a short oblique, mid to proximal diaphyseal radius fracture in a 24lb hound.

Anesthesia provided by the great help of , and South Metro Animal Emergency ()

13/07/2023

Measure twice, cut once.

19/06/2023

Happy Father’s Day to Dr. Dane aka Daddy ❤️ Carolyn and Maryn admire your hard work, compassion, and positive attitude. You fix all the broken puppies and kitties and kiss all the boo-boos 🥰 We love you!

14/06/2023

Cross pin fixation of an acute distal femoral Salter Harris type 2 fracture in a Jack Russel terrier, 7 months old.

Simple, quick and effective.

14/06/2023

We love having veterinary students that love surgery ride along with us. From discussing how to bury a knot, names of instruments, or reviewing anatomy - it is refreshing to be around future veterinarians curious and passionate to learn the trade.

Good luck with your studies at , George Hanson.

27/04/2023

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Please, consider support of Dr. Shelby Stewart - a fellow veterinarian that worked in the Minnesota community over the last few years. She is experiencing severe complications from COVID in Singapore and needs help at this critical time.

Just three years out of college, Shelby and her boyfriend Richard chose an adventure to work in Singap… Denise Casey needs your support for Dr Shelby Stewart

13/04/2023

06/03/2023

03/03/2023

Tibial tuberosity fracture in a 4 month old terrier, repaired with two K-wires and large gauge absorbable suture as a tension band.

19/02/2023

Three different emergency fractures, amongst the elective surgeries, to complete another week of helping dogs with orthopedic injuries.