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NJ Mobile Vet Team Credo
Professionalism, dedication, pragmatism, and diagnostic efficiency in the quest for rapid and accurate resolution of veterinary sonographic pathology in our patients.
We at Sound-Eklin New Jersey Mobile Veterinary Diagnostics are a team of specialized veterinarians that perform mobile sonography and medical consulting based in Sparta, New Jersey.This group was founded in 1985 and turned over to Eric Lindquist DMV (Italy), DABVP (Canine/Feline medicine) in 2006.
Since 2006 we, as a team, have been working hard to reevaluate our service and have made considerable effort to find the most qualified, motivated, pragmatic and dynamic consultants to assist you in your veterinary diagnostic needs and enhance the diagnostic and pragmatic quality of our service. All of our consultants have been selected to join our team based on qualifications that bring a different and essential forte that fills as many voids as possible in our medical preparation. Today’s veterinary medicine is too vast for one consultant to absorb all the advancements that develop here in the US and abroad in Canada, Europe, and the world. Therefore, our updated approach has created a significant cosmopolitan factor with globally trained veterinarians that comprise our team and expound upon the solid service founded and propagated by Dr. Mark Skeels, founder of VIA (now NJ mobile) over the last 20+ years.
With regards to the quest for diagnostic efficiency, Dr. Lindquist (Founder of SonoPath.com) manages the NJ Mobile operations by a “24-48 hour rule” regarding team organization and dispatch to our clinically evident internal medicine cases. This basically means that we do everything within our power to help you diagnose and treat your clinical cases in order to place that patient on the road to recovery, if not suffering from a terminal disease, within 24-48 hours. Think of the last number of patients that presented to your facility for anorexia, for example. The majority of diseases that cause such a significant clinical sign, such as anorexia profound enough to prompt a medical visit to your facility, tend to clinically decline within 48 -72 hours unless precise treatment can be initiated. Examples of this include, intestinal perforations, pancreatitis, perforating biliary disease, urinary obstructions, congestive heart failure, emerging neoplasia and so on…
We, as clinical sonographers, see these disease processes repetitively in our mobile practice and also see the rapid clinical decline that accompanies such pathology over a 2-3 day period. If we can help put these patients on the right therapeutic path by means of clinical sonography and medicine-based intuition, the patient will likely be more stable for further treatment (surgery, chemotherapy, intensive care) and have a shorter hospital stay, be more likely to recover, and be less of an economical burden to the owner. For this reason we have 5 doctors and 1 diagnostic medical sonographer on our team (See Team Summary) to be able to get to as many facilities and sick pets as possible and to maintain high availability to serve our always supportive referring veterinary clientele.
With these concepts in mind, Dr. Lindquist has founded a retrospective research program based on his archive of cases, which has become the core of SonoPath.com, an independent project dedicated toward enhancing diagnostic efficiency by means of clinical sonography in veterinary medicine. We invite you to visit SonoPath.com to see how presentations of sonographic pathology, along with preliminary clinical information, may enhance the efficiency of the diagnostic outcome in your practice. Many retrospective articles are in the works at the moment that are being prepared for publication. Dr. Lindquist also cofounded, along with Dr. Dean Cerf of Ridgewood Veterinary Hospital, Ridgewood NJ (ridgewoodvet.com), the UGELAB (Ultrasound Guided Endoscopic Laser Ablation) (www.sonopath.com/case_study_UGELAB.html) procedure for a noninvasive treatment for bladder tumors in dogs. This procedure has shown remarkable success in thwarting the rapid clinical decline in obstructive bladder tumors in the dog and provides another therapeutic option for owners, along with chemotherapy and supportive care, to enhance long-term quality of life in these urinary cancer patients.
NJ Mobile Team Summary
All of our associates at Sound Technologies NJ Mobile have significant medical and surgical experience and have practiced as general practitioners for many years. We strive to identify with the general practitioner having faced most of the issues that our veterinary clients face on a daily basis. We pride ourselves on identifying with the general practitioners’ needs with respect to their patients and pet owners.
Our associates typically will usually evaluate approximately 15-20 cases/day on the average, 750 cases/month as a team. This allows us to be exposed to an enormous caseload and variety of sonographic and clinical presentations that add to our experience and enhance our approach to diagnostic efficiency.
Team NJ Mobile has two board certified internists (Dr. Johanna Frank and Dr. Susan Klein) on our team. We are also update and amplify our library of applicable therapy macro text every year that you find in our comment sections of our faxed and emailed reports. This text has been made with great effort by our team in order to allow you to have the latest and greatest information that veterinary medicine offers at your fingertips from a global perspective. In this way you can sift through pertinent and applicable information within your busy day without having to search through the literature during your ubiquitous time pinch.
Another development that we have initiated is intrasquad telemedicine. What this means is that inevitably some case presentations are more complex than others and may necessitate a second or third look from other specialists within the NJ team or from the national Sound team in order to evolve into a conclusion regarding the particular presentation. We ask that you, the client, request that the sonographer save a specific case at the time of the visit for further review if such a complexity presents itself. Naturally, we cannot save every case given that Therefore, we ask that this service be limited to those particular cases that may arise.