Internal Medicine

Monocacy Equine is equipped to fully diagnose and treat horses with pneumonia, liver disease, kidney disease, chronic weight loss, neurologic disease, ophthalmic and dermatologic disorders, neonatal and pediatric diseases and colic.

Endoscopy

Endoscopy uses video cameras to image the horse's airway allowing us to identify problems. Then we can take diagnostic samples to run bacterial cultures and perform therapeutic procedures.

This procedure is essential in diagnosing chronic respiratory diseases and infections.

IV Fluid Therapy

Colic treatment requires a complete physical exam which includes monitoring the horse's vital signs, a rectal exam and nasal gastric intubation.

Monocacy Equine is equipped to provide intravenous fluid therapy when colics do not respond to simple therapy. Non-surgical colic conditions include colitis, enteritis, impactions and certain spasmodic and gas colics.

Neonatal Care

Neonatal intensive care requires early identification of the newborn's specific problems, intensive 24 hour management and observation by experienced nursing personnel.

Monocacy Equine is capable of providing intravenous antibiotics, anti-inflammatory medications, ulcer drugs, fluid therapy, IV or oral nutritional support and respiratory support with oxygen therapy.

Neurologic Disease

Common causes of neurologic disease in horses include cervical vertebral instability/stenosis (wobblers disease), equine protozoal myeloencephalitis (EPM), trauma, infection with West Nile virus and equine herpesvirus 1 myeloencephalopathy (EHV-1).

Monocacy Equine can perform a complete physical and neurologic examination, blood work, cervical radiographs and cerebrospinal fluid tap/analysis to aid in obtaining a definitive diagnosis.