The first veterinary scanner in the entire Caribbean, “a necessity in our daily practice”for the Moule veterinary clinic, for this tool which allows you to visualize precisely and in 3 dimensions, the entire body of an animal indicated the clinic on the networks.
The applications are numerous, from the evaluation of neurological disorders to the preparation of major surgery, including various explorations for cases of herniated discs, the study of thoracic or abdominal masses, or even the search for metastases. .
The scanner project required months of preparation and numerous adjustments to become a reality. According to Dr Maud Montigny, veterinarian associated with the clinic, speaking to our colleagues from Guadeloupe la 1ère, the process began in the summer of 2023: “We started to mature this project in June 2023, and we had to wait, do development work, have authorizations, ASN checks, and then we had electricity problems, so it was long, It took several months”.
This scanner opens the way to a diagnosis of unprecedented precision for veterinarians in the region. Dr Isabel Vecoven, also an associated veterinarian at the Clinique du Moule, explains the essential benefit of this new equipment: “For many problems, we didn't really have an answer. We had x-rays and ultrasound, but we didn't have images that were really precise, where we “cut the animal into very small pieces” and we saw exactly where the lesion was. There was nothing, no possibility, we had to go to mainland France”.
The images generated by the scanner are available immediately, allowing veterinarians to begin diagnosis as soon as the examination is completed. Thanks to this device, animals requiring in-depth examinations will no longer have to be transferred to the continent to obtain high-quality medical images.
Damien CHAILLOT
France
