24-HOUR Emergency and Critical Care
The specialists at Southern Arizona Veterinary Specialty &
Emergency Center are available 24 hours a day, seven days a week
through the Emergency and Critical Care Center at both locations.
Our emergency centers are located at 141 East Fort Lowell Road and
7474 East Broadway Blvd.
Animal Pain Management
Your pets can be treated at the Southern Arizona Animal Pain Center, a special clinic that offers our patients an opportunity to be evaluated by a board certified anesthesiologist, Victoria M. Lukasik, DVM, DACVA. She has specialized training in the management of both acute and chronic pain.
The goal of the pain center is to create pain management plans that are specifically tailored to manage your pet’s pain. The aim is to make our patients more comfortable in their every day activities and to prolong their quality and quantity of life. At the Pain Center, you and the veterinary specialists will discuss pain therapy options and help you choose the best approaches to fit your pets’ needs and your lifestyle.
Dentistry
Animals need dentists too and veterinarians are dentists as well as doctors. At Southern Arizona Veterinary Specialty & Emergency Center, we provide your pet with routine and specialized dental care, such as periodontics (teeth cleaning and scaling); orthodontics (for a comfortable bite, not for cosmetic reasons); root canals; crowns and bridges.
Periodontal disease (gum disease) is the most common clinical condition in companion animals. It causes bad breath, oral pain, behavioral changes such as reduced appetite, and may affect distant organs such as the kidneys, liver and heart.
The Dental care clinic is led by board certified specialist Kenneth F. Lyon, DVM, DAVDC and a Charter Fellow and past president of the International Academy of Veterinary Dentistry.
Dermatology
Our pets have skin problems that impact their health and comfort. At Southern Arizona Veterinary Specialty & Emergency Center, we treat all skin disorders. We do allergy skin testing and treatment and we treat ear disorders. The care is provided by Thomas P. Lewis II, DVM, DACVD, and John C. Angus, DVM, DACVD. Dr. Lewis, a board certified veterinarian in animal dermatology, is a published authority on animal skin problems. His articles have been published in numerous scientific journals, including "The New England Journal of Medicine" and "The Journal of Veterinary Dermatology." Dr. Angus, a board certified veterinarian in animal dermatology, is a specialist in managing difficult dermatologic diseases.
Diagnostic Imaging
Diagnostic imaging has become an integral part of all veterinary practices over the last decade. As technology has advanced we have been able to offer much more than standard radiographs (X-rays) to our patients and their family’s. At Southern Arizona Veterinary Specialty and Emergency Center we have state of the art imaging equipment including a high frequency generator for our radiography unit, two dimensional and three dimensional ultrasound capabilities, echocardiography including color and spectral Doppler and computed tomography.
This provides your veterinarian and our specialist with the advanced diagnostics they need to determine the cause of your pet’s illness.
Internal Medicine
Our pets are susceptible to the same diseases and internal organ problems that we are. And just like us, they need an internal medicine specialist. At Southern Arizona Veterinary Specialty & Emergency Center, we diagnose and treat a wide variety of internal medicine disorders including endocrine (Diabetes, Cushings, Addisons), gastrointestinal, urinary, respiratory and infectious diseases. The Internal Medicine service utilizes state-of-the-are endoscopic equipment to non-invasively examine the gastrointestinal tract, lungs, nose and urinary bladder.
Treatment is provided by Annalisa Prahl, DVM. Dr. Prahl has an extensive background in diagnosing and treating conditions of the urinary tract. Dr. Prahl has been officially recognized for her compassionate care of her patients.
Dr. Prahl provide a wide variety of endoscopic procedures.
Oncology
The cancer specialists at Southern Arizona Veterinary Specialty
& Emergency Center provide your pet with the most advanced
treatment options available. Treatment may include chemotherapy,
radiation therapy and or radioactive iodine therapy. Care is
provided by a team of doctors and nurses led by board certified
veterinarian Mary Kay Klein, DVM, MS, DACVIM, DACVR.
Dr. Klein has focused her medical career on the diagnosis and
treatment of animal cancer. In addition to her work with the
Southern Arizona Veterinary Specialty & Emergency Center, she is
a clinical lecturer and researcher at the University of Arizona
Cancer Center.
Ophthalmology
Eye problems are common in animals. Advances in treatment have enabled our pets to receive care similar to what we experience. At Southern Arizona Veterinary Specialty & Emergency Center, eye care includes slit lamp biomicroscopy; indirect ophthalmascopy; glaucoma testing and treatment; cataract evaluation; cataract surgery with implants; ocular ultrasound; CERF (Canine Eye Registration Foundation) examinations; laser surgery; and electroretinography. Our specialists treat eye traumas, and evaluate animals for blindness and visual impairment.
The eye care practice is led by board certified ophthalmologist Reuben E. Merideth, DVM, DACVO and Marcella Ashton, DVM. Dr. Merideth is a national expert in animal ophthalmology and a contributing author in five veterinary textbooks. Dr. Merideth
is one of only 225 board certified Diplomates of the American
College of Veterinary Ophthalmology in the world.
Surgery
Surgery is often the option that is needed to correct a medical condition. At Southern Arizona Veterinary Specialty & Emergency Center, the surgery center offers cruciate ligament repair; hip dysplasia evaluation and surgery; neurosurgery, orthopedic surgery and soft tissue surgery. The surgery division is supervised by board certified veterinarian Mary K. Quinn, DVM, DACVS and Geoffrey Hutchinson, DVM, MS, DACVS.
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