Surgery
Kindness Animal Hospital is fully equipped to perform most surgeries. We perform
our surgeries on Tuesday and Thursday mornings and in most cases, the patient can go home
the same day. Dr. Eger has been performing surgeries for the last 10 years and she
performs most of the soft tissue surgeries such as spays, neuters, cryptorchids,
cystotomy, tumor removals, Caesarian sections, etc. To ensure that your pet receives
the highest quality care, we enlist the help of a board certified surgeon to perform the
more intricate soft tissue surgeries and the orthopedic surgeries (bone surgeries).
Anesthesia
Nobody wants to see their pet undergo anesthesia because of the risks involved.
However, there are some things that can be done to reduce the risks. First of all,
the primary anesthesia should be safe. We use Isoflourene gas and it is one of the
safest on the market today. The other part to the anesthetic procedure is the
induction anesthesia which is given prior to giving the gas. This essentially knocks
them out and allows us to give the gas and to keep them down. There are a number of
these induction anesthesia's that can be used and they all have different effects on the
liver, kidneys and the heart.
Preanesthetic Testing
To minimize the risk with anesthesia's, there are some blood tests that can be
performed to check the function of the kidneys and the liver and if a problem is detected,
then an induction anesthetic will be chosen that has little or no effect on the problem
organ. No blood work will completely eliminate all the anesthetic risks since there
could be some underlying heart problems or other conditions that will not be picked up in
the blood work. Although preanesthetic testing is an extra cost it will greatly
reduce the risk of anesthesia and in most cases, it is well worth the added expense.
When you drop your dog or cat off for surgery, you may be given an option for the
preanesthetic blood work to be performed. Typically (but not always) the liver and
kidneys in younger animals are in pretty good shape. If you have a young animal and
preanesthetic testing is not in your budget, you may decline the testing. In older
animals, however, we strongly recommend the blood work and in some cases it will be
required.
KINDNESS
ANIMAL HOSPITAL
