At Plantation Pet Health Center, we offer a wide variety of surgical services ranging from elective procedures to more entailed non-elective procedures to treat specific diseases or conditions. We may be called upon to limit the breeding potential of an animal through neutering (castration of a male) or spay (ovariohysterectomy of a female). Many animals need lumps removed and tested for cancer; or repair of skin lacerations, damaged joints and broken bones. Often surgery will be indicated to remove foreign objects a pet has swallowed, or stones the body has produced in the urinary bladder or gall bladder. There are many more conditions for which surgery is the ideal treatment option.

All surgeries and anesthetic procedures involve some level of risk. This is true even in human medicine. Not all risks are always identifiable or preventable; however, many are. In order to ensure a surgical procedure that is as risk-free/ complication-free as possible, we provide the following:

• Presurgical blood work (optional but highly recommended)
• Intra-operative and post-operative pain control
• Anesthetic monitoring of respiration (breathing), heart rate, oxygen concentration in the blood, and electrical conduction through the heart (EKG)
• A separate surgical suite to minimize infection and contamination
• Heated surgery table to help minimize the drop in body temperature that often accompanies surgical procedures and slows anesthetic recovery
• Use of sterile equipment such as steam/gas-autoclaved instruments; sterile surgical gloves, gowns, and drapes; individually packaged suture material. (You may be surprised to find that there are still some practices out there that do not use all of these!)
• Isoflurane gas anesthesia
• IV fluid pumps (when needed) to keep a steady flow of IV fluids to the more critical patients