Western Australian Veterinary Emergency and Specialty- WAVES

15/11/2024

WAVES is hiring! Have you considered joining our team? Check out our vet and nurse vacancies on our website. We are looking for surgical nurses, emergency vets, and specialists! www.wavets.com.au/careers

30/10/2024

🎅🐾 Get ready for Santa Paws, the ultimate holiday event for your canine companions! Join us for a fantastic photography session with Santa, where your dogs and family can snap a festive photo and spread the holiday cheer.

📅 Dates:
Wednesday, 6th November: 3pm – 7pm
Sunday, 17th November: 3pm – 7pm
Friday, 22nd November: 3pm – 7pm
Sunday, 24th November: 11am – 3pm
Friday, 6th December: 3pm – 7pm

What to Expect:
• Your choice of one professional digital photo of your family and dog(s) with Santa.
• Additional digital images will be available for purchase directly through 7 to 1 Photography.
• High-quality digital images delivered straight to your inbox as part of a digital gallery.

What’s included:
- Goodie bags for good boys and girls
- Delicious snacks & treats from our sponsors
- Fun door prize for one lucky family

📸 PRICING
$65 per session
$30 for any additional digital copies
BOOKING PLATFORM:
https://www.eventbookings.com/b/event/santa-paws-waves-2024

🏥 Location: WAVES, Unit 2, 640 Beeliar Drive, Success
Photography Sessions are strictly limited, so we recommend booking your session ASAP! Please visit our booking platform for terms and conditions.

We would like to extend a special thank you to our Blood Bank supporters and sponsors: , , , , and most importantly, all of you!
Thank you once again for your incredible support, and we would like to wish you all a very Merry Christmas!

🎅🐾 Santa Paws – A Special Event by WAVES Blood Bank! 🐾🎅Get ready for Santa Paws, the purr-fect holiday event for your furry friends! Join us for an awesome photography session with Santa, where your pets can snap a festive photo and spread the holiday cheer.📅 Date: Select dates in N...

18/10/2024

🤩EXCITING ANNOUNCEMNT!🤩
We are pleased to share that Dr. Nick Lai, a board- eligible veterinary oncologist, will be offering comprehensive oncology services every Thursday and Friday as part of the WAVES Medicine Department.
These specialised services are designed to provide patients with the highest quality cancer care in close collaboration with referring veterinarians and the existing oncology services offered by the medicine department.

Cases for Dr Nick can be referred through our existing online referral
platform.🤩

12/12/2023

If your pet requires chronic medications. Please don't forget this week to get enough medications to last until mid-January. Your local vets may be taking a well-deserved longer break over the Christmas and New Year period.

21/11/2023

HEAT STROKE- How to avoid cooking your pet this summer.

As temperatures rise into the high 30’s some pets here in Perth will be hospitalised for the catastrophic effects of heatstroke. Many will survive if their owners are aware of the signs and take immediate life-saving action. Sadly despite the best of veterinary care, some may die of the complications of this horrific condition.
Dogs are most commonly affected but vets will also see cases in rabbits, guinea pigs, and other pocket pets.

As dogs cannot sweat, their main method of cooling themselves is to evaporate water by panting, in addition to drinking water, decreasing their activity, seeking shade and finding cool surfaces to lie on.

Signs of heat stroke include excessive, distressed, harsh sounding panting and then collapse. Dogs with heat stroke are trying so hard to breathe faster, that they often cannot stop for long enough to drink water.

Particularly at risk are geriatric animals, short nosed dogs which always have noisy breathing, dogs with stridor due to narrowing of their upper airway, and any dog which already has heart or lung disease, is obese or already ill. We have also seen young excitable dogs develop heat stroke secondary to chasing balls or playing excessively on hot days.

Consequences of heat stroke are death or damage to any organ, commonly muscle damage and bleeding disorders. Other complications include seizures, severe shock, ulceration, bleeding from the stomach and intestines causing blood in both vomit and diarrhoea, damage to the kidneys, liver, brain and lungs.

If your dog starts to develop distressed panting and excessively noisy breathing in hot weather, immediately stop any exercise. Actively cool your dog for at least five minutes by continuously saturating the whole coat with a hose or placing under a cold water shower. If your pet does not appear completely back to normal after 5 minutes of active cooling then you should immediately seek veterinary attention for your pet. Cooling them with a hose is essential first aid, but in moderate and severe cases intravenous fluids and medications to treat complications may be required. Their chance of survival is much better if medical care is started rapidly; waiting a few hours to see if they will get better can be associated with a decreased chance of survival.

While driving to the veterinary clinic have the air conditioning on full or have the windows open while continuing to wet the dog’s coat with a water bottle. If your dog is small take a blanket or towel with you (just in case you manage to drop their body temperature too low and they start shivering).

Safety tips for dog owners over the hot days ahead include:
1) Do not exercise your dogs in the heat of the day
2) Never leave dogs in cars (or sheds), as temperatures rise within minutes in enclosed environments, even if the windows are left partially open
3) Always make sure they have plenty of fresh water and shade and keep dogs at increased risk inside; in air-conditioning if possible.
4) If heat stroke is suspected immediately start cooling your dog with cold running water for five minutes and then seek immediate veterinary attention
5) If your dog has had heatstroke in the past be extra vigilant, they are at greater risk of it occurring again.
6) Keep dogs with stridor (noisy breathing) in air conditioning and have them checked by your vet (in many situations surgery can help them to breath more normally and decrease their risk factors for heat stroke).

If you have caged animals such as rabbits, guinea pigs or ferrets, remember cages prevent them burrowing underground or seeking a cooler area on hot days, so you will need to take care that their cage is moved to a cool location.

Finally please leave water bowls out for birds and wildlife as their ability to remain well hydrated is important for wildlife surviving hot weather days. Sadly, climate change has significantly decreased rainfall in our environment over the past few decades which affects wildlife who can't turn on the tap to take a drink when they need it.

06/10/2023

Just a reminder to everyone to not kidnap baby birds when you find them on the ground.

24/07/2023

Let us introduce Poppy! She doesn’t look very pleased to be here, but she should be!

Poppy was the first cat we treated with I-131 for hyperthyroidism at WAVES! Six weeks post treatment her total T4 has gone from 164 to 13 nmol/L (normal 9- 46 nmol/L) and her kidney parameters are normal! 👏👏👏 Well done Poppy! We will see Poppy in another 2 months to continue to monitor her, as it can sometimes take 3-6 months for I-131 to take full effect.

If you have a cat with hyperthyroidism or a patient with hyperthyroidism please contact the medicine department at WAVES for more information.

16/07/2023

Educating Perth Vets and Nurses on the treatment of feline hyperthyroidism with I-131 and launching the WAVES I-131 service at WAVESCON 2023 yesterday. 🐈☢️

13/07/2023

Hi Veterinarians and Veterinary Nurses in WA. Don't miss out on Western Australian Vet Conference happening this Saturday. Come and be a part of a day filled with valuable continuing education and networking opportunities at the Perth Convention and Exhibition Center. Explore a diverse range of topics, including surgery, diagnostic imaging, professional wellness, medicine, and anaesthesia. Rest assured, there will be something captivating for everyone in attendance! Check out our website for more details: www.wavets.com.au/cve

22/06/2023

What’s harder than pilling a cat??
Pilling a hyperthyroid cat! 🐈‍⬛

WAVES medicine department now offers radioactive iodine (I-131) for the treatment of cats with hyperthyroidism. Please go to our website for more information for cat owners and for referring vets.

01/06/2023

WAVES is hiring. Have you considered joining our team? Check out our vacancies on our website www.wavets.com.au/careers

10/11/2022

Announcement: Dr Rita Singh a veterinary cardiologist will be consulting at WAVES starting next week!
Rita is a specialist Is veterinary cardiology and will be available for consultation, echocardiography, ECG/ holter monitoring, heart certificates/ screening prior to breeder.
Rita also will be performing interventional procedures at WAVES such as balloon dilation for pulmonic stenosis and pace-maker implantation.
Appointments with Rita require a referral from you regular vet. Please call 94125700 for further details.

02/05/2022

🥰 MOTHERS DAY🥰 Remember NO lilies for cat owners💐

Cats are at high risk of developing kidney failure from ingestion of petals, leaves or pollen from lilies. So if mum is a cat lover pick another type of flower. If cats are suspected to have ingested even a small amount of the Lilium (lilies) family of plants, please immediately contact a veterinarian. Treatment is always recommended to prevent kidney failure.

28/04/2022

COVID UPDATE: WAVES will still require all clients, staff and visitors to wear masks inside the hospital.

We are doing this to ensure that we continue to have sufficient staff available and healthy to be able to treat your pets. Social distancing is impossible during the close confines of a consult room. If you come to WAVES and don’t have a mask on you, then we will provide you with a new surgical mask to wear while you are inside the hospital.

Thank you for your understanding.

19/04/2022

When you work in the ED...joy is doughnuts🍩 for breakfast....Thanks to the mystery doughnut provider. Would love to know who you are☺️

17/02/2022

WAVES has a new service starting in March 2022 🙌🥳 One that gets to the root of the problem. Can you guess what it is? Comment below what you think our newest service is!

10/02/2022

Internship in Small Animal Medicine

We have an opportunity for a veterinarian to join our medicine department for a 12-month internship in internal medicine.

The medicine intern will assist in delivering the small animal internal medicine clinical service under the supervision of team of five internal medicine specialists and a resident. You will assist in referral cases in internal medicine, medical neurology, cardiology and oncology. You will also have exposure to the associated specialities of radiology, anaesthesia, and emergency/ critical care. In addition to learning through clinical practice, you will actively participate in journal clubs, daily case discussions and literature reviews.

The role is for daytime position, Monday to Friday, with no weekend/ overnight work. This is a 12-month position and the clinical experience gained is aimed at vets wanting to pursue residency training in small animal internal medicine.

The successful candidate will have the following:

- A veterinary degree registrable in Western Australia
- At least 2 years in clinical practice
- Have already completed a rotating internship
- Be enrolled to sit or have already passed their ANZCVS membership examinations in medicine
- Be serious about progressing their career in medicine by pursuing a residency in small animal medicine, in order to become an internal medicine specialist.

About us: Western Australian Veterinary Emergency and Specialty (WAVES) opened in 2013. It is a multidisciplinary hospital providing specialist services in internal medicine, surgery, emergency and critical care, diagnostic imaging, anaesthesia and dermatology. We are based in Success, 25km south of Perth city. The practice features all the equipment needed to deliver the highest quality care for patients including digital radiography, ultrasound, fluoroscopy, a full range of endoscopy equipment, in house CT and 1.5T MRI. In the medicine department we have five specialist medicine clinicians and one resident. WAVES is an approved ECVIM residency training centre. Medicine’s nursing support is excellent with a large team of highly skilled and dedicated nurses We also work closely with out emergency and critical care team, who take care of our patient’s afterhours.

How to apply: Please send your CV and cover letter by email to [email protected]