Cardiology

Information for Veterinarians

Outpatient Echocardiography

Outpatient echocardiography is a service available to referring veterinarians, Monday through Friday.

The service allows outside veterinarians to schedule their patients and clients for an echocardiogram. Animals are brought to the VTH by their owner or an agent of the veterinarian at an appointed time. An echocardiogram is performed by cardiology service professionals and results of the echocardiogram are reported directly to the ordering veterinarian that same day.

To order an outpatient echocardiography, please call (970) 297-4476. Only veterinarians or a veterinarians office can schedule outpatient echocardiography.

Consultations

Consultations with one of our cardiologists are available to primary care veterinarians at no charge. Requests for non-urgent consultants during regular business hours can be made directly by calling our cardiology message line. For urgent consult, please leave a message and dial 0 to request a page for an immediate consultation with a cardiologist. We will make every effort to respond immediately. For after-hours consultations, please request that the cardiologist on call be contacted through the Emergency Care service.

Our veterinarians regularly publish specialized research. These studies can be excellent for learning new treatment and care information for your client's pets, as well as for understanding more about what specialty services our hospital is able to offer you and your clients. View some of our cardiac research on our hospital's Research page.