Top Specialists and MRI Scanner for South West Based Veterinary Centre

Tom Cave - BVSc MSc (Clinical Oncology) DSAM MRCVS, RCVS Specialist in Small Animal Internal Medicine – co-owner of Cave Veterinary Specialists explained “Demand for our neurology and neurosurgery service has continued to grow over the past 12 months but accepting emergency cases could be challenging with visiting MR imaging for brains and spines only available once or twice a week. Now that we have acquired our own on-site high field veterinary specific MR scanner we can expand to provide what we have wanted to do: a 24/7 neurology and neurosurgery service led by a European specialist in neurology and supported by recognised specialists in diagnostic imaging, anaesthesia, and our superb nursing team. All these components are required to successfully support patients particularly those that undergo brain and spinal surgery. Having a multidiscipline team that also covers orthopaedic surgery, soft tissue surgery, internal medicine, and oncology means we can also provide the highest level of care for patients with multiple problems such as trauma cases”.

The extended Neurology and Neurosurgery service will be able to accept referrals or advise on cases including neurological emergencies such as spinal trauma, head trauma, cluster seizure management and status epilepticus; Spinal diseases; Seizures and other paroxysmal diseases; Inflammatory central nervous system diseases and brain tumours for example.