We are proud to own a complete in-house laboratory facility composed of the IDEXX VetLab® Suite of In-House Analyzers, which is one of the most trusted and modern technology in laboratory equipment available today in veterinary medicine. This provides Northwest Equine with the capability to perform complete blood cell counts, chemistry, electrolyte, and blood gas analysis, hormonal analysis, coagulation times and urinalysis with incredible accuracy in less than 20 min! These can be used for our critically ill patients or as regular health screening tool for horses of all ages assisting us in diagnosing infections, anemias, liver, kidney, heart, muscle disease, tumors, electrolyte and metabolic imbalances among many other conditions.

Patty running blood work in our in-house laboratory 

This state-of-the-art IDEXX VetLab® Suite of In-House Analyzers presents our clients and patients with the advantage of a fast diagnosis at any time of the day or week so that the necessary treatments or measures can be immediately implemented with no waiting or delay. This allows our patients to uphold the best quality of life possible and assists the owners with the decision making process often involved in these cases.

Urine, fecal and certain skin testing are also performed in our in-house laboratory.

We would like to extend our laboratory services to neighboring veterinarians that may encounter themselves in the middle of the night or weekend with emergencies that blood work could provide critical and necessary information. Please call our veterinarian on call to check for availability and make arrangements to drop off blood (the owners or your assistant can bring it to us while you are handling the emergency) and for delivering of results (immediate, over the phone or fax).
Cost of an Equine Health Screen (CBC/Chem/electrolytes) = $135.00. There is an additional $30.00 fee for after hour tests.

For more information on our laboratory equipment please visit: http://www.idexx.com/animalhealth/analyzers/index.jsp