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Abigail Servin
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Skinner
January 26, 2014
Improvement of Technology
Veterinary medicine has progressively changed over the years, new advancements, new
technology, and new students who are enthusiastic about making the veterinary field advance. In
the past years there were pet owners who came to veterinarians for the best help, there were
times in which veterinarians did not have the right equipment to help the animal, and one reason
was because they did not have the advanced technology they have now. This technology has
greatly improved the lives of animals; the laser surgeries have simplified the job of the
veterinarian and fasten the recovery of animals. The Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)
technology has detected early diseases and has extended the lives of the animals. Technology
advancement in the use of X-rays, a machine that lets the veterinarian knows which bones of the
animal were harmed and how great the damage was, has made animals recoveries faster.
Laser technology has greatly improved the way veterinarians do surgery. The use of
lasers during surgery simplifies the overall procedure, laser technology can pretty much be used
anywhere in an animals. Cold pliers, scissors, sewing strings, needles have been replaced with
lasers, for instance during a surgery with basic utensils a surgery can last up to an hour to an hour
and a half depending on the surgery, but when the laser is substituted in form of the utensils the
surgery may last up to 15 or 30 minutes. This allows veterinarians to book up more appointments
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and evidently would increase business wise. The higher the business improves the more money
is invested in higher technology.
The use of MRI’s has also greatly impacted the veterinary field. This technology has
found new diseases in animals in the early stages. It detects future problems ahead of time before
it’s too late for the animals; this helps veterinarians because they are able to prescribe new
medication to the animals ahead of time before anything severe happens to them. For example, a
dog who has a brain tumor can be scanned by the MRI, the MRI not only scans the tumor but the
entire brain. The veterinarian may have found that another tumor is forming, in this situation the
veterinarian may have prescribed medication in advance in order to get rid of that tumor before it
got any bigger. MRI’s have a positive impact on the technology advancement in the veterinary
category.
X-rays have also improved veterinary technology. With this utility veterinarians are able
to view the injured bones of the animal. They are able to determine how bad the injury is, and
from there they decide the appropriate procedures to take. Without X-rays veterinarians would be
clueless of how bad the broken bone is. For example, X-rays make it easier to detect which
bones are broken, and how deep the injury of the bone is. This machine helps not only the
veterinarians but also the animals because they will be out of there injury in no time, and back to
them self’s
Technology advancement has had a positive outcome in the veterinary field. Laser
Surgeries, MRI’s, and X-rays are only a few of the many technology advancements that have
taken place.
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