Consultations
Our veterinary surgeons are available for
consultations with other veterinarians by telephone. Veterinarians wishing
to contact the Orthopedic and Neurosurgical Service should call the Small
Animal Reception at 225-578-9600.
If a consultation based on radiographic findings is desired, radiographs
should be addressed to “The Orthopedic Service” at the Department of
Veterinary Clinical Sciences, School of Veterinary Medicine, LSU, Skip
Bertman Drive, Baton Rouge LA 70803-8410.
Referrals
(click here for printable referral form in pdf)
Your referrals are important to us!
Referring veterinarians have a dedicated
telephone line for making referral appointments or reaching one of our
clinicians about a possible referral (225-578-9600). Our staff will
respond to your calls on this priority line as quickly as possible.
When we receive a professional referral,
we make every attempt to call you within one hour to discuss the case. If
we cannot come to the phone immediately, we will either have someone else
speak with you or return your call as soon as we are able. Please consider
leaving an after-hours contact telephone number, if it is late in the day.
Since your name remains associated with
your client’s records, you will be kept fully updated of any further
client visits, through telephone calls, fax, or written copies of the
discharge instructions and visit summaries.
How to refer a client to the
Veterinary Teaching Hospital
Please call the Small Animal Desk at
225-578-9600 to make a referral. After speaking to a veterinarian on the
orthopedic team, you may schedule an appointment for the client, or have
the client call our receptionists to schedule an appointment that is best
for them.
The Orthopedic and Neurosurgical Service
has scheduled appointments on Monday afternoons and Wednesday mornings.
Emergencies and urgent referrals are fit in as needed. Scheduled surgeries
are performed on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays.
To expedite the process for your clients,
use the following procedures for all referrals:
1. Have the client and animal information
available:
Client name and address
Client telephone numbers
Animal name, signalment and reason for referral
2. If possible, send a completed
VTH Referral Form, as well as any
pertinent diagnostic results (e.g. laboratory tests, radiographs) with
your client.
Discharge information and access
to diagnostic imaging
You are an active partner with us in
providing our students with excellent case material through the referral
process. We greatly value your referrals, and we are striving to make the
referral process and feed back more convenient for you.
Discharge instructions summarizing
results of diagnostic procedures, treatments, and recommendations for
aftercare are routinely faxed to the referring clinic within 24 hours of
discharge. Please contact us if you prefer to receive the instructions via
email or if you do not receive the documents in time.
If you have Internet access, you can
review radiographs and CT scans of the animals you have referred to us.
The radiographs should be posted on the web within 24 hours.
To review the radiographs, go to
http://www.vetpacs.com.
Select “LSU School of Veterinary Medicine” from the drop-down list of
clinics, type in the webcode(s) for the individual animal and click on
“Get Exam.” We will give you the webcodes by telephone or fax along with
case updates.
Emergencies:
Emergencies and urgent referrals are seen
24 hours a day. If you have an emergency or urgent consult during normal
business hours (8 AM to 5 PM), inform the receptionist and they will
contact us. If we cannot come to the phone immediately, the receptionist
will find another staff veterinarian to discuss the case with you, or we
will return your call as soon as possible. We appreciate that you work in
a busy clinic yourself. Therefore if you prefer not to wait on the
telephone, just leave your number and we will contact you.
Between 5 PM and 8 AM, the emergency
veterinarian will attend to the animal. If emergency surgery is indicated,
the emergency staff will notify the surgeons who are on-call. Otherwise,
the animal will be treated by the emergency staff and transferred to the
appropriate service the next business morning.
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