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Fluoroscopy
If a radiograph is an x-ray picture, fluoroscopy is the video equivalent. Fluoroscopy permits visualizing a moving x-ray image in real time. It is used to observe the body as it functions - eating, swallowing, breathing, digesting, or urinating. Fluoroscopy can also be used to visualize how a dye injection fills the blood vessels of the heart, liver, or other organs or how it outlines the spinal cord when injected during a myelogram.

Four Seasons Animal Hospital uses a modern, compact OEC 7600 C-arm for fluoroscopy. This equipment is used extensively in human healthcare in emergency rooms, ICUs, surgical centers, and gastrointestinal labs. In our animal patients, we use C-arm fluoroscopy to:
 
Guide catheter placement
Assess swallowing
Visualize gastric emptying
Monitor peristalsis
Bronchoscopy
Angiography
Myelography
Monitor and assess bladder emptying
Guide needle insertion
Implant pacemakers
Identify and align fractures
Locate foreign bodies
Assess subluxations