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Surgery

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At Green Valley Animal Hospital, we are proud to offer a surgical suite complete with the latest in monitoring equipment – ensuring your pet’s surgery and anesthesia are always performed as safely as possible. Our facility’s full complement of monitoring equipment includes ECG, blood pressure, pulse oximetry, carbon dioxide levels and body temperature. Warm water heating blankets ensure your pet’s temperature is maintained throughout the procedure.

Soft Tissue Surgery

  • Tumor/Growth/Lump Removals
  • Perineal Urethrostomy
  • Splenectomys
  • Episioplasty
  • Trauma Wound Repair
  • Cesearean Sections
  • Internal and External Biopsy Collection
  • Exploratory Surgeries
  • Enterotomy/Gastrotomy-Obstruction Removals
  • Anastomosis-Intestinal Tumor Removal
  • Gastric Dilatation and Vulvulus (bloat surgery)
  • Cherry Eye Repair
  • Eye Enucleation
  • Eye Evisceration with Intrascleral Prosthesis
  • Neuters/Spays

Surgery Preparations

Surgery2Pre-operative Surgical patients are generally admitted between 7 a.m. and 8 a.m., Monday through Friday. For your convenience, your pet may be dropped off the evening before the scheduled procedure and boarded overnight.

Any pet that may be undergoing an anesthetic procedure should be fasted prior to admission. Please do not feed your pet any food after 8 p.m. the night before the procedure. Water can be given. All regular medications should also be given at the regular times.

Your pet’s safety is our number one concern. For that reason, all patients have a preoperative physical examination the morning of surgery to make sure your dog or cat hasn’t developed any physical issues that could cause problems with anesthesia. It is recommended that all pets undergo preoperative lab work. Pets over 7 are required to have at least a basic pre-op blood panel. This ensures we know about any abnormal blood counts or organ problems that could affect how they handle surgery and the anesthesia.

Post-Surgery Care & Monitoring

A technician is assigned to each pet administered for surgery. Our veterinary nurses stay with your

dog or cat from the moment he undergoes anesthesia until he is fully awake. Pets are never left unattended. Once awake, patients remain in our ICU where we can keep a close eye on them until they go home. If your pet needs to stay overnight, our live-in veterinary nurse is

available to monitor your pet from time to time, however if more extensive monitoring is required, we would have them transferred to a local 24hr emergency facility.

Pain management is a crucial aspect of any pet surgery, and we go to great lengths to make sure our patients are as comfortable as possible. Our hospital has a multitude of pain-killers available for our patients and we routinely use combinations of drugs to ensure a quick and comfortable recovery for your dog or cat. Our staff is trained in Constant Rate Infusion (CRI) pain medication so that animals will be kept pain free throughout their stay. Animals feel pain just like we do and making sure they have the best in pain management after surgery is very important to us.

 

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Spaying

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Spaying your pet has many benefits. The procedure, which prevents female animals from becoming pregnant and reproducing, can help your dog or cat live a longer, healthier life. Spaying will not change your pet’s personality.

By spaying your female pet, you’re protecting her against potentially deadly diseases, including bacterial infections, reproductive tract diseases, and several types of cancer. You also won’t have to worry about her going into heat. This means avoiding the mess that often accompanies the heat cycle in female dogs and the pacing and crying that happens with female cats. In addition, spaying your pet will help control the dog and cat overpopulation problem, keeping more animals out of shelters.

Spaying, which involves removing the ovaries and uterus, is a surgical procedure and does need to be performed with the pet under anesthesia. We follow strict protocols and continually monitor your pet’s vital signs to help ensure her safety. Please see the descriptions under Anesthesia and Patient Monitoring for more information on what we do to keep your pet safe.

To set up an appointment to have your pet spayed or to learn more about this procedure, call or visit our clinic. If you are struggling with the decision of whether to spay your pet, please call us so we can discuss your concerns.

May 16
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Neutering

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Neutering your pet has many benefits. The procedure, which prevents male animals from reproducing, can help your dog or cat live a longer, healthier life. Neutering will not change your pet’s personality.

By neutering your pet, you’re reducing or eliminating his risk for prostate and testicular cancer, as well as sexually transmitted diseases. Neutering will also reduce or eliminate undesirable and embarrassing behavior, including roaming, fighting, humping, and spraying. In addition, neutering your pet will help control the dog and cat overpopulation problem, keeping more animals out of shelters.

Neutering, which involves removing the testicles, is a surgical procedure and does need to be performed with the pet under anesthesia. We follow strict protocols and continually monitor your pet’s vital signs to help ensure his safety. Please see the descriptions under Anesthesia and Patient Monitoring for more information on what we do to keep your pet safe.

To set up an appointment to have your pet neutered or to learn more about this procedure, please call or visit our clinic. If you are struggling with the decision of whether to neuter your pet, please call us or stop by so we can discuss your concerns.

May 16
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Soft Tissue Surgery

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We perform many types of soft tissue surgeries at our clinic. Soft tissue surgeries are those that are not associated with bone. These surgeries can provide many benefits to pets.

Probably the most common soft tissue surgery performed on pets is the removal of masses, or lumps. Most of these masses, once removed and tested, are found to be benign (nonharmful); however, occasionally they are more serious. Early removal and accurate diagnosis of a lump is necessary to improve the outcome in your pet if the mass is cancerous.

If your dog suffers from frequent ear infections, surgical intervention can reduce their occurrence by improving airflow into the ear canal.

Surgery can also help resolve several problems related to the eyes. Tearing in your pet’s eyes can mean an infection is present or may be a sign that the cornea (outer layer of the eye) has been damaged. Surgery may allow the cornea to heal faster with less scarring, improving your pet’s ability to see. In some pets, the eyelashes may actually damage the cornea. Surgical intervention improves comfort in these pets, reduces the chances of corneal scarring, and enhances the pet’s vision in the long term.

Please contact us if you’d like to discuss how soft tissue surgery might be able to help your pet.