Avoid a Scare with Preventive Care
This is the ultimate goal of preventive care.
What is helping pets live longer, healthier lives?
Hippocrates first analyzed it in 480 BC, it's the golden ticket to early detection of disease.
What is urine?
IDEXX Fecal Dx antigens detect these 5 most common intestinal parasites.
What are Hookworms, Roundworms, Whipworms, Fleatape worms, and Giardia?
Though called 4Dx, this rapid assay test actually detects this many species of vector borne illness.
What is 7? Heartworm, Lyme, 3 Ehrlichia species, 2 anaplasmosis species
Number range of tests that can be run at one time on the Catalyst One.
What is any combination of 1-25?
Preventive care diagnostics can help detect disease at this stage, before symptoms are present.
What is subclinical?
This biomarker can detect kidney disease as early as 25% loss of function, whereas Creatinine is at 75%
What is SDMA?
Can detect live parasitic infection in the absence of egg shedding.
What is Fecal Antigen?
This blood test, when used as data points, can tell you if Lyme disease has responded to treatment and if an annual Lyme positive result is old infection vs reinfection
What is Quant C6?
Minutes it takes to complete a full UA including chemistries and sedimentation with the IDEXX SediVue.
What is 3 minutes?
Affordable when bundled into preventative care panels, this cardiac screening test can detect cardiac disease early even in the absence of a murmur or any symptoms
What is proBNP?
Exposure to these two tick-borne diseases can dramatically increase the risk of kidney disease in dogs.
What is Ehrlichia (112% increase) and Lyme (43% Increase)?
The time between parasitic infection and shedding eggs.
What is pre-patent period?
The improved sensitivity of the 4Dx Plus to this disease enables vets to find more asymptomatic infections.
What is Anaplasmosis?
3 Specialty tests that are more cost effective to run in house on the Catalyst than at the reference lab.
What are UPC's, Phenobarb levels, Fructosamine, Bile acids, Progesterone, c-Reactive protein, TT4?
Affordable cancer screening test for dogs.
What is Nu.Q?
SDMA reflects kidney function whereas this new IDEXX test reflects kidney injury
What is Cystatin B?
Combining these two tests is the most sensitive and specific way to detect fecal parasites.
What is fecal antigen and flotation by centrifugation?
Diagnostic test that should be run following Anaplasmosis detection due to platelet and neutrophil impacts.
What is a CBC?
Amount of uncentrifuged urine needed to do sediment evaluation for casts, crystals, cells, and bacteria on the SediVue?
What are 4-5 drops?
1 out of 7 young (age 1-4), seemingly healthy dogs had clinically significant abnormalities when evaluating these parameters at an annual wellness exam
What are Chem, CBC, UA?
It's especially important to monitor SDMA when treating this common disease of senior cats.
What is hyperthyroidism?
What is 5x?
Prevalence of Anaplasmosis positives in Centre county this year.
31% or 1 in 3 dogs tested with 4Dx.
2 Parameters given only on in house IDEXX hematology instruments.
What are reticulocytes and reticulocyte hemoglobin?