Pet Diagnostics

Diagnostics

Our hospital offers extensive diagnostic modalities, including in-house CBC and blood chemistry, urinalysis, blood glucose monitoring, blood pressure monitoring, fine needle aspirates, digital radiography, EKG, and abdominal ultrasound. We also maintain an ongoing relationship with multiple national veterinary laboratories for sending out more specific tests, should they be required.

In-House Laboratory

Harbor Point Animal Hospital maintains a full-service on-site diagnostic laboratory that allows us to perform complete blood counts, chemistry profiles, urinalysis, fecal exams, cytology evaluations, and other valuable tests for your pet. With our advanced laboratory technology, we can receive fast and accurate results, helping to determine your pet’s diagnosis and what treatment is recommended.

Our complete in-house laboratory is particularly essential to our emergency and critical care cases. For many tests, we can often have results within 15 minutes, enabling us to begin treatment quickly.

Digital Radiography

To provide you with the highest-quality veterinary care for your pet, Harbor Point Animal Hospital has invested in a state-of-the-art digital X-ray machine. There are many important advantages to digital X-rays:

They can be immediately viewed on a computer monitor. The clear, detailed images can be manipulated to get a better view of your pet’s bones and internal organs, leading to a faster and more accurate diagnosis. They take less time to process, which means less time for your pet on the X-ray table (and less stress), and less waiting time for you. No harsh chemicals are needed to develop the images, reducing potential harm to our staff and the environment. If a second opinion is necessary, digital X-rays can be sent by email to a specialist.

Advanced diagnostic capabilities are an extremely important part of veterinary medicine, in part because we can’t simply ask our patients what is wrong. Our investment in digital X-ray technology reflects our commitment to offering you and your pet the best, most comprehensive healthcare available.

Ultrasound

Ultrasound is a painless, safe, non-invasive procedure we use to evaluate your pet’s internal organs. Using sound waves, ultrasound produces a real-time moving picture of your pet’s organs that allows us to visualize objects that cannot be detected by X-rays alone.

At Harbor Point Animal Hospital, we use ultrasound exams to assess the shape, size, tissue density, internal structure, and position of your pet’s abdominal organs. In addition, ultrasounds help assess cardiac health (also called an echocardiogram) and diagnose pregnancy. The technology can also be used to identify masses or tumors and as a guide during fine needle aspirates or cystocentesis.