The hospital has a surgical area of almost 1,000 m² and all the equipment necessary to carry out operations on big animals in two operating rooms reserved for this purpose. Moreover, the professors and staff go on site to farms and shelters when the animals cannot be taken to the hospital.

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The hospital can provide ultrasound, X-rays, computed axial tomography (CAT) scans, for both clinical cases as well as for investigative purposes. With the help of the professors assigned to this service, students become familiarized with how to read images and receive corroboration when making a diagnosis. The new technologies have helped in the digitalization of these processes.

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	Prof. Dr. Andrés Barreiro Lois  Profesor titular de Diagnóstico por Imagen Acreditado AVEPA-DPI This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
	Prof. Mónica Vila Pastor Profesora asociada de Diagnóstico por Imagen  Acreditada AVEPA-DPI This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
	Prof. José Daniel Barreiro Vázquez Profesor asociado de Diagnóstico por Imagen  Acreditado AVEPA-DPI This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
	Prof. Alicia Seoane Mojón Profesora asociada de Diagnóstico por Imagen  Acreditada AVEPA-DPI This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Among the services offered at the clinic and veterinary hospital or clinic, lab work, along with other services, is a fundamentally important aid for correct clinical diagnosis. The Veterinarian responsible for the case is the one who requests one or more analyses from the laboratory. The analyses are very valuable as they can either complement a suspected diagnosis or help to vary it.

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In this service, students do practical training and are supervised by a professor from the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine at all times. During this practical training, they carry out macroscopic examination of organs, take samples and do tissue processing in the laboratory in order to discover what the animal is suffering from.

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The radiotherapy unit of the HVU-Rof Codina has a pump of cobalt 60, which is located in the Radiophysics laboratory of the USC in the Campus of Santiago. This equipment, which emit high energy gamma radiation, allows to treat tumors located at some depth in the tissues.

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The pharmacy at the Rof Codina Clinical Veterinary Hospital is has its own medicine distribution and administration service with one differentiating factor: it is an internal service for veterinarians.

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This free service which provides information on the prevention of residue in animal products is provided by the Rof Codina Foundation in collaboration with the Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, USC.

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The hospital has inpatient areas for small animals, ICU, large animal hospital and a quarantine and isolation ward for infectious animal diseases. There is a total of over 2,000 m² inpatient areas.

The livestock farms close to the hospital be ascribed agreements individualized to a circuit of itinerant visits that aims to make on-site medical and surgical performances.
This service, available 24 hours for urgent, daily performs a route different with Professor, accompanied by four students travelling in a van that is adapted to carry out home care.

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HVU-RC is the official training to identify pure-bred animals and provides a specific service to meet all activity relating to horses in hospital and at home.
This type of activity is increased substantially between the months of March and June, fertile species time.
A series of agreements with institutions and clinics complete attention to equidae activity, as well as the establishment of a center of Rams of the State.

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Ambulatory electrocardiography is done over a 24 hour period with a Holter monitor. Eco-cardiograph studies and congenital diseases, like patent ductus arteriosus, are repaired using surgical techniques.

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Skin conditions are easily detected and represent some of the most common cases seen here.

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We also help to deal with behavioral problems in small animals such as: aggressiveness, destructive behavior, inappropriate elimination, and excessive barking.

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Along with the rest of the laboratory tests and diagnostic imaging procedures, flexible endoscopy equipment makes it possible to visualize and take samples so as to determine the reason behind chronic digestive disorders. Sample taking and the help of the anatomical pathologists make it possible to diagnose many digestive disorders in many different animal species.

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Assessment of breeding females and males, semen preservation, and diagnosis and treatment of reproductive system disorders in female and male animals are treated here.

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The hospital has a surgical operating microscope and can also perform phacoemulsifications and electroretinography; thus all types of ocular diseases may be addressed. The most common ones encountered are vision loss due to cataracts or problems with the retina, as well as other problems such as ulcers or eye trauma.

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Patients with fractures, principally of large bones, or joint disease are treated in this unit. The elevated frequency of car accidents and fights between animals justifies the high number of cases attended.

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The hospital has sophisticated diagnostic equipment, like CAT scan machines, that can be used to attend to this service in which there are many convulsive disorders as well as some that may cause paralysis.

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