About Us
Hospitalisation
We have separate air-conditioned walk-in dog kennels and cat wards with 24 hour nursing from our team of dedicated day nurses and night nurses.
We have 2 interns who cover the weekends and out of hours care of the in-patients.
We are able to provide critical care nursing to include:
- Tube feeding
- Nasal oxygen administration
- ‘Bair Huggers’ for hypothermic animals
- Blood transfusions
- Blood gas analysis
- Non invasive blood pressure monitoring
- Syringe pumps and
- Fluid therapy.
Theatres
Our theatres have up to date monitoring equipment and piped oxygen.
This includes 2 Kontron machines that measure:
- Invasive or non-invasive blood pressure,
- Saturated oxygen,
- End tidal carbon dioxide,
- Electrocardiogram reading,
- Respiratory rate and pulse rate.
In addition we have 2 ventilators for use with thoracic surgery, suction units, diathermy and Bair Huggers to retain the heat of the patient.
Additional information
Advanced imaging plays an important role in our diagnostic procedures.
We have a colour flow ultrasound Doppler machine with a selection of sector and linear probes and off-site MRI facilities.
Our radiography facilities include a Potter-Bucky radiography machine with tilting table to enable contrast studies eg myelography, portovenography, and intravenous urography.
Internal medicine facilities include in-house coagulation facilities, Istat machine for arterial blood gases and bicarbonate measurements, and a selection of fibre-optic endoscopes and biopsy forceps that link to a video camera for ease of viewing.
Orthopaedic Facilities enable us to perform arthroscopy. In addition we have extensive internal and external fixation equipment for complex fracture management and advanced orthopaedic procedures, for example TPLO’s, arthrodesis, and spinal surgery.
We have separate theatres for soft tissue surgery and orthopaedic surgery to maximise sterility in addition to our vacuum autoclave.