Anesthesia and Patient Monitoring

A Registered Veterinary Technician will monitor your pet throughout the procedure. We use the safest available gas anesthetic for our general anesthesia. We always recommend pre-surgical blood testing for all patients. If through this testing and screening we find any abnormal results we will adjust our anesthetic protocol to provide the safest anesthetic for each patient. We use modern equipment to monitory each patient’s vitals throughout each procedure. These include: heart rate, respiration rate, blood pressure, blood oxygen levels, temperature and more.

Pain Management and Control: Pain can not only affect the demeanor, disposition and temperament of animals, but it also affects their overall health. Pain can cause significant stress on your pet’s immune system making…

Patient Monitoring: We monitor our patients to keep them as safe as possible during procedures that require general anesthesia. A veterinary technician will continually assess your pet’s heart and respiratory rate, blood…

General Anesthesia: For some procedures, your pet will need to be administered general anesthesia so that he or she will be unconscious and not feel pain. Many pet owners worry about their…

Local Anesthesia: If your pet is having a minor surgical or diagnostic procedure performed, we sometimes use a local anesthetic to help control pain. For example, when we perform a biopsy (in…