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Surgery
The Surgery Department at the Animal Hospital of West Chester is dedicated to optimizing patient outcomes. We do this by assembling a team that will provide the best possible care for your pet. Our veterinary surgeons work together to determine the least invasive and most effective procedures for your pet.
Comprehensive Surgical Care
Animal Hospital of West Chester veterinarians maintain the highest standards of care for all surgical procedures. We have multiple anesthetics to choose from including inhalation (gas) anesthesia. Anesthesia is individualized for your pet based on current health, breed, and length of surgery. Using the most current technology your pet’s vital signs are monitored by our specially trained, licensed veterinary technician, who will remain with your pet through recovery.
- All surgery patients will receive a pre-anesthetic injection to minimize anxiety, reduce anesthetic requirements, and provide pain management.
- We encourage pre-surgical lab work before all procedures. Your pet’s lab results will help determine which anesthesia to use, which pain medications to use, and document health before his/her surgery.
- An IV catheter will be placed in his/her front leg so fluids can be given during the procedure to maintain blood pressure, improve recovery, and provide vital access in the rare event of a crisis (for routine elective surgeries, catheters are not mandatory).
- All patients are kept warm during their procedure using a circulating water heating pad (made for infants).
- A licensed veterinary technician will monitor your pet’s heart rate, EKG, mucus membrane color, capillary refill time, breaths per minute, oxygen level, body temperature, and blood pressure.
- All incisions will receive laser treatment during recovery. This pain-free therapy laser will provide immediate comfort and improve healing rates.
The surgery team will work diligently to minimize potential complications. Written detailed discharge instructions will be available during your pet’s release. The technician will go over these “home care instructions” in person. The technician and doctors will then monitor your pet’s continued recovery with follow-up phone consultations and recheck examinations.
Common Surgical Procedures:
- Spay (remove ovaries and uterus)
- Neuter (remove both testicles)
- Dental Cleaning; including surgical extractions
- Declaws
- Cryptorchid Neuter
- Umbilicial and Inguinal Hernia Repair
- Cystotomy (remove bladder stones)
- Wound repair
- Gastrotomy (stomach surgery)
- Splenectomy (remove the spleen)
- Growth/Tumor Removal
- Liver biopsy & Liver Lobe Resection
- Cruciate Repair: small dogs and cats only
- Abdominal Exploratory Surgery
- Enucleation (removal of the eye)
- Fracture Repair
- C-section
- Amputations of toe, tail, and limb
- Intestinal surgery
- Esophagostomy Tube Placement
- Gastropexy & GDV repair
- Growth removal
- Conjunctival flaps
Estimates will be created prior to all surgeries. All patients must have a recent examination by one of our veterinarians prior to surgery.
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