The SNAP® T₄ Test just got faster and easier!
Plasma and new workflow for quicker results!

Now you can run plasma on the new SNAP T₄ Test. Running plasma eliminates the clotting time necessary for serum samples—with plasma T₄ you can have results in just 15 minutes!

In the morning, take out the SNAP T₄
devices you’ll need for the day*

Use plasma from the same sample
you drew for chemistries

Incubate sample and prepare your
SNAP T₄ Test

Run the SNAP T₄ Test (avg. time 7 minutes)

Total time to run SNAP T₄ Test

You can also take SNAP® Cortisol and Bile Acids devices out in the morning to ensure they are ready when you need them.*

For more information on the SNAP T₄, Cortisol and Bile Acids tests, please visit www.idexx.com/snapshot or www.idexx.com/snapreader or call
1-800-355-2896.

SNAP T₄ and Cortisol devices require 10 minutes and SNAP Bile Acids requires 30 minutes to warm up if not removed from the refrigerator in advance. Devices can be removed from refrigeration up to 5 eight-hour cycle times.

New for the IDEXX VetLab® Suite

• Catalyst Dx™ Chemistry Analyzer
• SNAPshot Dx™ Analyzer

SNAP® T₄, Cortisol and Bile Acids test kits for SNAP® Reader and SNAPshot Dx™ Analyzer

SNAP T₄, Cortisol and Bile Acids kits test are now validated for use on both the SNAP Reader Analyzer and the NEW SNAPshot Dx Analyzer. Kits now contain updated product inserts and sample tips required only by SNAPshot Dx users.

SNAP Reader customers: You will need the latest SNAP Reader software (version 4.60) to use these kits. To check your SNAP Reader software version through the service menu of the VetTest® analyzer, select 0 (zero) on the main menu, then 6 for communication utilities and 3 for SNAP Reader software.

Call your IDEXX distributor representative today to order!

Two new enhancements for the IDEXX VetLab® Station

New SNAP® test interpretive guides added

The IDEXX VetLab Station software (version 2.31) now contains several new additions to the interpretive guides available, including guides for each of the SNAP test results. The interpretive guides offer valuable background information, which can be particularly helpful as an aid in explaining diagnostic results to your clients.

Print a SNAP^® log report and eliminate the need for redundant bookkeeping

The newest version of the IDEXX VetLab Station software allows you to automatically generate a report that includes all of the SNAP test results entered into the IDEXX VetLab Station. The report can be generated for a specific time frame and neatly formats your SNAP results into a simple log sheet, eliminating the need for you to maintain a separate manual log for of all of your SNAP test results.

Meet Nicki Brentin, LVT

A three-time weekly winner in our Suite Stories contest for her stories about Zena the cat, Chewy the rottweiler and Bailey the schnauzer, Nicki was also chosen as a finalist for her Zena story!

Nicki has been a technician for five and a half years. She currently works at the Puget Sound Veterinary Referral Center/Animal Emergency Clinic, which employs 12 veterinarians and more than 25 full and part-time technicians. It’s a busy place, especially in the evenings and on weekends, with 5−25 patients arriving during each shift.

Nicki feels that pet owners compare their pets’ care to the care people get when they go to their own doctors. “You get everything done right away in human medicine, so clients expect to be able to get everything done for their pet in one building and get everything back quickly. In-house diagnostics allow us to offer better, higher quality service. It helps our reputation, too. A higher level of patient care makes clients happy, and happy clients tell their friends.”

Nicki describes herself as “one of those crazy vet techs whose life revolves around her pets,” all of which were owner-relinquished or abandoned at the clinic. Her lucky pets include Murray, an eight-year-old border collie mix; Eddy, a five-year-old rottweiler mix; Isadora “Dori,” a four-year-old terrier mix; and a few cats to round out the household.

The next-generation IDEXX VetLab® Suite
Chemistry • Hematology • Urinalysis • Electrolytes • Endocrinology • Coagulation • Blood Gas

For more information on the IDEXX VetLab Suite of analyzers, visit us at www.idexx.com/vetlab or call 1-800-355-2896.

Take a closer look at the VetTest® Chemistry Analyzer
This trusted favorite is reliable, proven and continually improving

The VetTest analyzer has been helping veterinarians worldwide for over 20 years. More than 30,000 practices rely on this analyzer for its speed, testing flexibility, reliability and proven IDEXX dry-slide technology.

IDEXX continuously provides innovative enhancements and upgrades to the VetTest analyzer, ensuring it remains up to date.

• Proven IDEXX dry-slide technology provides accurate results, even on compromised samples
• Results are fast—just 8 minutes using plasma and the IDEXX StatSpin® Centrifuge
• Flexible menu includes 27 different tests, 7 prepackaged panels and 39 individual
  species- and age-specific reference ranges for millions of different testing combinations
• Connects with the IDEXX VetLab Station to provide integrated diagnostic results printed together in one report, plus simple trending and easy access to historical data

IDEXX continues to work to offer practices the newest innovations for more comprehensive, faster diagnostics and improved practice efficiencies.
The VetTest analyzer is growing along with the rest of our diagnostic suite with new enhancements of its own. In the last year alone, practices have enjoyed improvements like these:

• Improved pipette tips for better sample flow
• Time-saving slides that go straight from freezer to analyzer
• Easier to open slide packages
• The new Avian Health Profile for diagnosing a wide range of avian species
• Easier monitoring of patients on NSAID therapy so you can adjust medication when necessary
• The Diagnostic Health Profile to help create a minimum diagnostic database and to also offer more focused liver-testing capabilities and the ability to monitor pancreatic health
• Online VetTest training for the entire staff
   

This year, IDEXX introduced the Catalyst Dx™ Chemistry Analyzer with breakthrough innovations in efficiency and speed of testing. Many practices will choose to upgrade to the Catalyst Dx Analyzer, while many others will continue to use their VetTest® Chemistry Analyzer with confidence. Rest assured that the introduction of the Catalyst Dx Analyzer does not change our commitment to the continued development and support of the VetTest analyzer, which remains an integral part of our IDEXX VetLab® Suite.

IDEXX VetLab® Station/Cornerstone®/SmartLink™ in-house laboratory connection—it’s a revolution in information management!

Completely revolutionize your workflow and data management by enabling the SmartLink
in-house laboratory connection between the IDEXX VetLab Station and IDEXX Cornerstone practice management software. The SmartLink connection allows patient information to automatically transfer from Cornerstone when the patient is checked in or when blood work is requested directly to the IDEXX VetLab Station. Upon completion of the diagnostic test, all of the patient results will automatically upload to Cornerstone.

 

• Automatically populate diagnostic requisitions, and upload results to Cornerstone and include them in electronic medical records.
• Rely on accurate and complete billing with automatic downloads to patient files and invoices.
• Virtually eliminate orphaned (unassociated) test results.
• Easily implement testing protocols and reminders.

In addition, you will improve practice revenue by eliminating unbilled laboratory work through the automatic transfer of data to client invoices.

For more information about how you can take advantage of this new technology, contact your IDEXX Computer Services sales representative at 1-800-283-8386.

Lee Barteaux
BS, DVM, MRCVS
Medical Affairs Manager

Dr. Lee Barteaux joined the IDEXX VetLab team as medical affairs manager after 15 years experience in clinical veterinary practice. Lee is originally from Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. He received his BS from Dalhousie University in Halifax and his DVM from the University of Guelph in Guelph, Ontario, Canada. Lee went on to do postdoctoral studies at Cornell University in New York, completing an internship in small-animal medicine and surgery.

Lee’s areas of interest are internal medicine and imaging, abdominal ultrasound and radiology in particular. He recently worked as an internal medicine consultant for the IDEXX Wetherby laboratory in the UK while living in Amsterdam.

He currently resides in Portland, Maine, with his partner of 12 years and 2 adorable domestic shorthaired kittens, Austin and Jake.

IDEXX Customer Support is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

Toll-free: 1-800-248-2483
Fax: 1-800-248-3010

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