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Wellness/Medical Exams
Regular examinations are critical for keeping your young or older pet healthy. They provide the veterinarian a chance to evaluate your pet’s overall health with a comprehensive physical exam, vaccines, and fecal evaluations. They also are a way to possibly detect a problem before it turns into a serious illness. Our pets are not able to tell us when they are not feeling well so further diagnostics, such as; blood work, radiographs, and urinalyses are important parts of your pets overall wellness.
Surgery
We perform many surgical procedures including but not limited to spays, neuters, skin mass removals, cystotomies, and dental surgeries. Our goal is to make the anesthesia and surgery as safe as possible for each patient. Each morning, the veterinarian does full pre-surgical examinations and complete bloodwork prior to anesthesia. The veterinarian then creates a custom anesthetic plan for each individual. We use the safest anesthesia medications available, including sevoflurane and alfaxalone. Every patient has an intravenous catheter placed and intravenous fluids started for the procedure. A licensed veterinary technician is dedicated to monitoring anesthesia on your patient from anesthetic induction, through the procedure, and into our surgical recovery area. Each patient has a new, sterile, endotracheal tube for the procedure. While under anesthesia, the patient is hooked up to monitoring equipment, including continuous electrocardiogram (EKG), non-invasive blood pressure monitoring, esophageal temperature, and pulse oximetry. Sterile surgeries are performed in a dedicated surgical suite with caps, masks, gowns, and all appropriate sterile procedure. Dental surgeries are performed on a dedicated dental table next to the dental radiography unit with the identical monitoring equipment. We consider pain control to be very important for the patient and is incorporated in each aspect of the procedure from induction to recovery.
Dentistry
Our most frequent surgery is our dentistry’s which includes scaling the teeth clean, charting any abnormalities, full mouth radiographs, polishing, and extractions if needed. Unfortunately, our pets don’t know the importance of brushing their teeth and maintaining good oral health. Our staff will teach you how to take care of your pet’s teeth through brushing, dental diets, oral gels, and water additives. Please click on the link below to learn more about our full dental procedures.
Radiology
We are proud to offer the latest in digital radiographic technology. Radiographs are an important diagnostic tool used to evaluate your pets overall health. We also offer the option for them to be sent to a Board Certified Veterinary Radiologist for evaluation. We also perform full mouth dental x-rays with every dental procedure.
In-House Laboratory
Our laboratory is equipped to perform complete blood count, serum chemistry, electrolytes, feline leukemia and feline aids testing, heartworm tests, serum antibody testing for tick-borne diseases, as well as a variety of other blood, urine and stool analyses. We also offer more extensive testing through reputable reference laboratories whose services include, but are not limited to; culture and sensitivity, histopathology of tissue biopsies, cytology, vaccine titers, tick serology, and fluid analysis.
Supportive Care and Euthanasia
We know that when your pet gets older some serious issues can arise and managing their pain and illness is of utmost importance to us. When it is their time we are here to support you in that decision and to help make it as peaceful and loving as possible for you and your pet. If you choose to have someone come to the comfort of your own home we are able to supply you with the information to point you in the right direction.
Pharmacy
A pharmacy is maintained on the premises for client convenience. We offer a complete inventory of flea and tick preventatives as well as heartworm medications, along with other prescription medications to keep your pets healthy. We stock only medications from reputable manufacturers and distributors. We also work with a compounding pharmacy to make medications into liquids and transdermal gels so you can easily medicate your pet. We also offer an online pharmacy for our clients to make ordering their pet’s medications a whole lot easier!
Homeopathy
Dr. Burke studied homeopathy with the Academy of Veterinary Homeopathy under Richard H. Pitcairn, D.V.M., PhD, from 1995-1996. She obtained her certification in 1998. This form of alternative medicine, the science of similars, was founded by Samuel Hahnemann, M.D. (1755-1843). It is the practice of using animal, mineral, and plant material to assist the “vital force” of the body to heal itself. Homeopathy is useful in the treatment of both acute and chronic disease and remedies are prescribed on an individual basis.
Acupuncture/Chinese Herbs
Acupuncture is using a needle to stimulate a specific point in the body which can help relieve pain and inflammation and promote wellness and balance in the patient. There are more than 150 acupuncture points that have been identified in animals. They tend to be areas where there is a high concentration of nerve endings, small blood vessels, and mast cells. It has been used for over 2000 years in China, and in the past several decades thousands of scientific studies have been funded in the United States to study acupuncture. They have confirmed that acupuncture is effective in treating nausea and vomiting, abdominal pain, constipation, osteoarthritis, back pain, degenerative joint disease, myofascial pain, dental pain, facial paralysis, infertility, and asthma. Depending on the condition, one treatment may be curative, but with more chronic diseases usually a series of treatments are needed. Along with acupuncture, we are proud to offer Chinese Herbal Medicine. Treatment is based on a Traditional Chinese Medicine diagnosis and is used to help correct a specific underlying imbalance in the patient. We order our herbs directly from Dr. Xie’s Jing Tang Herbal Store. They use only top graded herbs and their products are in compliance with Good Manufacturing Practices regulations and standards. Chinese Herbal Medicine is a safe natural option used to treat pain, gastrointestinal disease, heart conditions, hormonal diseases, kidney failure, urinary problems, coughing and asthma. It can be combined safely with Western medicine.
Nutritional Counseling
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Herbal Medicine
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Ultrasound
We are excited about a recent investment in a state-of-the-art ultrasound machine. Our doctors are undergoing additional training in abdominal ultrasonography to be able to offer diagnostic ultrasounds to current clients. We send diagnostic images to a board-certified veterinary radiologist for expert review. We also use the ultrasound to guide cystocentesis procedures for sterile urine sampling, as well as abdominocentesis &thoracocentesis for fluid-sampling.