Request a surgical consultation or refer a patient

Owner self-referrals are welcome. Owners can call Alta Vista Specialty & Emergency Veterinary Centre and request a consultation with Dr Wood. Veterinary teams can use this page to prepare an addressed referral email draft.

Owner: call to request consultation Veterinary team: start referral email

For veterinary teams

1. Add referral detailsPatient name, presenting complaint, and owner email if it is not in the medical record.
2. Choose an email appGoogle Mail, Outlook, or your default app.
3. Attach records and sendAdd available files in your email application.

Suspected cancer presentation? Open the pre-referral oncology diagnostics before assembling the case package.

Routine referral

Create the referral email

Enter the patient name and presenting complaint. Include the owner email if it is not in the medical record. Nothing is sent until your clinic reviews and sends the draft from its own email account.

The draft will be addressed to drwood@smallanimalsurgeon.com. You can open it in Google Mail, Outlook, your default mail application, or copy the complete email details.

Patient name Owner email If not included in the medical record Short presenting complaint

After the draft opens

Attach what is available, then send

Medical record and current medication list
Relevant labwork, cytology, histopathology, or ultrasound reports
Photos, radiographs, or other imaging files

Records not ready? Send the referral now. The files can follow in another email using the same subject.

Privacy: this static page does not transmit these entries. It only prepares an email draft for your clinic to review and send.

Referral location

Hospital details

Alta Vista Specialty & Emergency Veterinary Centre
2220 Walkley Road, Ottawa, ON K1G 5L2

Hospital phone: 613-731-9911

Clinical resources

HeLP score · BRisk · Emergency surgical assessment · Pricing framework