Advanced Animal Care

As a board-certified internal medicine specialist, Dr. Britt Culver takes referral and second opinion appointments for complex medical cases. And of course, he is always available as a specialist for the clinic's own patients.

If you are a referral/second opinion client, please go to our Resources page and download the forms you need there.

Dr. Culver and his staff provide the following services in these areas:

Internal Medicine

  • Consultation on serious or confusing illnesses
  • Comprehensive endoscopy services
    — Noninvasive examination, biopsy and surgery of the gastrointestinal, urinary, respiratory, and reproductive tracts
    — Endoscopic foreign-matter removal
    — Noninvasive laparoscopic and thoracoscopic surgery in the abdomen and thorax
  • Oxygen therapy and blood gas evaluation
  • Transfusion therapy
    — In-house blood bank
    — Blood typing and crossmatching
    — Blood component therapy
  • Nutritional support
    — IV-delivered nutrition (total parenteral nutrition)
    — Endoscopic positioning of feeding tubes
  • Comprehensive endocrinologic testing and treatment
  • Continuous rate infusions of medications and chemotherapeutics
  • Complete coagulation screening
  • Intradermal allergy skin testing

Cardiology

  • 6-lead electrocardiogram
  • Comprehensive echocardiograms
  • Direct and indirect blood pressure measurement

Oncology

  • Bone marrow aspiration and biopsy
  • Specialized imaging and biopsy techniques
    — Ultrasound guided biopsy of tumors
    — Flexible endoscopic biopsy of tumors
    — Laparoscopic and thoracoscopic tumor biopsy
  • Chemotherapy
  • Ultrasound guided chemical ablation of tumors
  • Noninvasive endoscopic tumor removal

Neurology

  • Myelography
  • Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) tap
  • Intensive seizure management
  • Muscle and nerve biopsies

Specialized Imaging Techniques

  • Ultrasound
    — Cardiac
    — Abdominal
    — Thoracic
    — Guided biopsies
    — Color and spectral Doppler studies
  • Contrast Radiography
    — Barium gastrointestinal studies
    — Cystourethrography
    — Intravenous urography
  • Video Endoscopy
    — Gastroscopy / duodenoscopy
    — Colonoscopy
    — Bronchoscopy
    — Urethroscopy / cystoscopy
    — Otoscopy
    — Vaginoscopy
    — Rhinoscopy
  • Rigid endoscopy
    — Laparoscopy
    — Thoracoscopy

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Click on the links below to see images of clinical procedures:

Esophageal stricture

Leaky heart

Normal canine intestine

Liver laproscopy

Liver biopsy

Feline intestinal tumor

Heart mass


Montana Veterinary Specialists & General Care
1660 Euclid Avenue, Helena, Montana, 59601 • 406-449-3539