Surgical procedures
Our experienced surgeons are comfortable doing all orthopaedic and soft tissue small animal surgery. Some of the procedures we perform are:
- Extra capsular repair for cranial cruciate ligament rupture
- Tibial plateau levelling osteotomy (TPLO) and tibial tubercle advancement (TTA) for cranial cruciate ligament disease
- Patella luxation correction surgery
- Coxofemoral luxation repair
- Juvenile pubic symphysiodesis (JPS)
- Double or triple pelvic osteotomy for hip dysplasia
- Femoral head and neck excisional arthroplasty
- Bone fracture repairs – pins and wire, dcp and locking plate repair, external fixators
- Mal-unions, non-unions and angular deformities
- Tendon and ligament repairs
- Arthrodesis
- Soft palate, nares and laryngeal saccule surgery Arytenoid lateralization (laryngeal tiebacks)
- Ear canal surgery – vertical canal excision, bulla osteotomy and total ear canal ablation with lateral bulla osteotomy.
- Exploratory laparotomy
- Gastric torsion / volvulus surgery
- Preventative gastropexy
- Colectomy in cats and dogs
- Epidural steroid injections for lumbo-sacral disease
- Ureteral transposition
- Urinary incontinence surgery – colposuspension and sling urethroplasty
- Cystotomy
- Perineal and scrotal urethrostomy
- Perineal hernia repair
- Anal sacculectomy
- Mandibulectomy and maxillectomy
- Amputations
- Oncological resections and reconstructions
- Csf taps, bone marrow aspirates and joint taps
- Occult lameness examinations
Medical procedures
- Consultation
- Abdominal ultrasound
- Ultrasound guided aspirate or biopsy
- Echocardiography and treatment plans for heart disease
- Gastroduodenoscopy with endocopic biopsy (for chronic vomiting or diarrhoea cases).
- Oesophageal / gastrointestinal foreign body retrieval
- Rhinoscopy
- Bronchoscopy and bronchoalveolar lavage for chronic coughing
- Bone marrow aspirate or biopsy
- CSF collection
- ECG (acquisition or interpretation only)
- Feeding tube placement (oesophageal tube, endoscopic PEG tube placement).
- Radiography
- CT
- Neurological exams
Dermatology procedures
- Consultations
- Allergic skin disease testing
- Infectious skin disease diagnosis and management
- Immune mediated skin disease diagnosis and management
- Inherited skin disease
- Alopecia
- Cutaneous manifestations of systemic disease
- Otitis Media and Externa (including video otoscopy, CT scanning, myringotomy)
Physiotherapy procedures
Tailored physiotherapy, rehabilitation and acupuncture programmes available for treatment of dogs and cats for;
- Arthritis
- Neurological problems
- Pre and post-operative rehabilitation
- Muscle wasting and old age related diseases
- Acute and chronic respiratory diseases
- Weight management
- Pain management
- Laser therapy
- Infra-red heat therapy