Large Animal Medicine

The large animal medicine service is composed of eight clinicians that provide advanced critical care and diagnostic services

  • Intensive critical care for both neonates and adults
  • Diagnosis and care of horses afflicted with gastrointestinal disease
  • Diagnosis and care of neurological disease in large animals, including use of such techniques as cerebrospinal fluid collection, electromyography and MRI
  • Pulmonary function testing
  • Equine cardiology
  • Transvenous electrical cardioversion for atrial fibrillation
  • Diagnosis and treatment of muscle diseases
  • State of the art isolation facilities and in house diagnostic testing for management of infectious diseases
  • Advanced diagnostic imaging including ultrasound of the abdomen, thorax and umbilical structures and digital radiography, CT and MRI
  • Endoscopy of the stomach, upper airway and bladder
  • Herd of blood donors with 24 hour cross-matching service

For information on the Hofmann Equine Neonatal Intensive Care Unit and how you can volunteer at the UFVMC click here.