Equine Veterinary Clinic Facilities

With state of the art mobile diagnostic and clinical equipment plus surgical and treatment units, Dalehead can provide the very best in equine care.

Full Surgical Facilities

Including modern operating theatre with purpose built operating table, inhalation anaesthetic machine, ECG, blood pressure monitor and pulse oximetry with a padded recovery box providing protection for the patient at both induction and recovery.

The facility is also equipped with a digital x-ray unit and dedicated examination and treatment room with stocks.

The site also provides supervised hospitalisation, plus lunging and trot up areas for lameness workouts.

Routine and preventative healthcare eg. Worming Programme.

A comprehensive dentistry service with our own qualified EDT is available either on or off-site  and there is easy access and parking at the clinic.

Specialist lameness evaluations

Trot up tracks and hard and soft lunging facilities make the Rathmell Clinic an ideal location to perform pre-purchase examinations and diagnostic lameness evaluations on site.

Equipment/Techniques Used:

Radiography Units – both mobile and clinic based units with digital x-ray processing.

Endoscopy – modern endoscopes both for clinic and on-site use, to aid diagnosis of the more complex respiratory and sinus problems.

Ultrasonography – we have 3 portable scanners which are multi-frequency enabling them to be used for reproductive, soft tissue and orthopaedic diagnostics.

Specialist Dental Equipment – use of a ‘Le Clair’ motorised dremel for routine work and correction of more serious mouth problems and equipment to enable standing oral extraction of diseased teeth.

Arthroscope – used for orthopaedic surgery in the removal of chip fractures and to flush out tendon sheaths and joints, this minimises the risk of infection and improves recovery time through the use of key-hole rather than invasive surgery.