How We Keep Your Pet Safe During Surgery
During anesthesia, we monitor your pet closely using advanced tools to track:
EKG (Electrocardiogram): Measures heart rhythm and electrical activity.
ETCO2 (End-Tidal CO2): Tracks the amount of carbon dioxide exhaled, ensuring proper ventilation.
Respiratory Rate: Counts breaths per minute to monitor breathing patterns.
Inhaled CO2: Measures carbon dioxide levels in the air your pet breathes in.
Blood Pressure: Monitors circulation to ensure adequate oxygen delivery to vital organs.
Temperature: Keeps track of body heat to prevent hypothermia.
SpO2 & Pulse Oximeter: Measures oxygen saturation and heart rate for optimal oxygenation.
We also use a breathing ventilator to assist their lungs if needed. 🐾
How We Keep Your Pet Safe During Surgery
During anesthesia, we monitor your pet closely using advanced tools to track:
EKG (Electrocardiogram): Measures heart rhythm and electrical activity.
ETCO2 (End-Tidal CO2): Tracks the amount of carbon dioxide exhaled, ensuring proper ventilation.
Respiratory Rate: Counts breaths per minute to monitor breathing patterns.
Inhaled CO2: Measures carbon dioxide levels in the air your pet breathes in.
Blood Pressure: Monitors circulation to ensure adequate oxygen delivery to vital organs.
Temperature: Keeps track of body heat to prevent hypothermia.
SpO2 & Pulse Oximeter: Measures oxygen saturation and heart rate for optimal oxygenation.
We also use a breathing ventilator to assist their lungs if needed. 🐾
Are you still using advantage , Frontline or seresto collars ? Did you know you are using 45 year old technology?
This dog has been on one of the flea medications mentioned above for months and still was loaded with fleas.
Our advice is to use one of the newer flea medications, such as nexgard, simoarica, credelio or bravecto as the fleas have not built resistance, yet.
Are you over feeding your dog? Are you using a dog food calibrated cup?
We have dry dog food calibrated cups, and if you pour water on the dry dog food calibrated cup and then pour it back to the human one cup measuring cup you will notice that it doesn't fill it all the way to the top.
Infestation by rodent or rabbit bot fly larvae is most commonly seen in late summer or early fall and may affect dogs, cats, or ferrets. A fistulous swelling that may exude purulent exudate is typical. Definitive diagnosis is made by finding and identifying a larva. Treatment is manual extraction of the parasitic bot. The lesion is cleaned and allowed to heal by granulation.
How often should we be brushing 🐕 and 🐈 teeth? Once every day for 20-30 seconds .
Have you wondered what happens when your dog has a ear infection and we take a ear sample?
This is called a ear cytology , we take the samples from the ear and then take them to the lab. When the process the sample as show in this short video part 2
Have you wondered what happens when your dog has a ear infection and we take a ear sample?
This is called a ear cytology , we take the samples from the ear and then take them to the lab. When the process the sample as s
how in this short video part 1
Have you ever wondered how do we process your pets poop 💩, samples?
Here is a quick video of how we make 💩 soup. Once the process is over we read the sample under the microscope and report the results in the medical record. Enjoy
What really happens , when our patients are dropped off for surgery? Debra , one of our licensed veterinary technician explains our typical surgery intake and preparation.
Today we are covering the way to fix luxating patellas . Our previous video covered what luxating patellas are and on this video we are covering how we fix this common problem.
One of most common things we notice is that little fat dogs are more prone to luxating patellas than ideal weight little dogs. So one of the first things we like to do if we have a dog with luxating patellas is to get them to loose weight. That can be achieved by starting to walk for 5 minutes a day and decreasing the amount of foot by 1/3 of what is currently being fed.
We encourage getting a accutual dog food measuring cup and not a empty can of beans, a red solo cup or a 7-11 big gulp cup.
If that doesn't help the next step is surgical intervention, there are 3 things we can do to fix luxating patellas.
1- the groove and be made deeper by carving the groove, and or placing implants at the edges of the knee groove making it deeper .
2- we can tie a suture to the ligament that holds the knee cap to create tension and preventing the patella from coming out of the groove
3- last but not least is to cut and relocate the tibial tuberosity to be in the center of the leg .
Here is a link with information on luxating patellas
https://www.acvs.org/small-animal/patellar-luxations#:~:text=Patellar%20luxation%20(dislocation)%20is%20a,aspect%20of%20the%20knee%20respectively.
