Ultrasound uses sound waves to show the inside of your pet's body in real time. It is painless, there is no radiation, and most pets lie comfortably through the whole thing.
The doctor may recommend an ultrasound to:
Like every test here, an ultrasound gets recommended only when it changes what we know or what we do. The doctor explains the why before anything happens, and you decide.
The two tools answer different questions, and Blue Cross has both in the building.
Bones, joints, swallowed objects, the outline of the chest and belly. When the question is structural, digital X-ray is usually the first look.
The texture inside organs, how blood and fluid are moving, what a mass actually involves. When the question lives in soft tissue, ultrasound sees what X-ray can't.
Because both tools are in-house, your pet can go from exam to imaging in the same building, often the same visit, and every image lands in the same record.
At many practices, an ultrasound means a referral: another office, another intake form, another stranger meeting your pet cold, and days of waiting between the question and the answer. Here the scan happens inside the same Paterson hospital, and the findings are read alongside your pet's full history, by the team that has been seeing them all along.
That matters for more than convenience. A finding means more when the person reading it knows what is normal for your animal, what was found last year, and what has changed since. The doctor walks you through the results in plain language and lays out your options, and you decide how to proceed.
In-house ultrasound at 470 McLean Blvd, read by the team that knows your pet. New clients welcome.