Surgical services at Shepton and Wells Vets
With our three fully-equipped operating theatres, one in Wells and two in Shepton, and our highly-skilled team, we offer comprehensive surgical care for your pet across both centres. Our surgical facilities and expertise allow us to provide for our patients’ individual surgical and anaesthetic needs, from pre-op management through to recovery.
Surgical facilities at Shepton and Wells Vets
Sterile surgical theatres with focal surgical lighting. Piped oxygen and oxygen generators for continuous oxygen supply. Isoflurane anaesthetic vapourisers for calibrated inhalational anaesthesia delivery. Multi-parameter monitors for ongoing assessment of anaesthetised patients’ vital parameters, such as blood oxygen, carbon dioxide output, blood pressure and ECG. Laparoscope, camera, light source and insufflator equipment for keyhole surgeries. Electrocautery (specialist electrical blood vessel sealing device). Autoclave and chemical sterilisation for surgical instruments.
Surgical procedures offered at Shepton and Wells Vets
Keyhole spays. Routine neutering (spay and castration). Elective and emergency surgical procedures. Advanced surgery. Routine spay and castration (neutering) procedures, laparascopic (keyhole) surgery and other general elective and emergency surgical procedures are conducted on a daily basis across both centres. More advanced orthopaedic and soft tissue surgeries are performed at Shepton Vets, where our night nursing team are based, allowing patients to receive the round-the-clock care often required after longer or complex surgery.
Aside from keyhole and routine neutering procedures, other general surgical procedures are offered in both centres. For elective surgery, this allows us to provide the care your pet needs in a location to suit you. For emergency surgery, it means we have the flexibility to ensure your pet can undergo their emergency procedure promptly in whichever centre has immediate availability and the right team in place for their post-surgical care.
Examples of surgical procedures at Shepton and Wells Vets include;
- Our state-of-the-art facility is equipped with advanced surgical instruments and monitoring equipment to ensure the safety and comfort of your pet throughout the procedure.
- Uncomplicated skin mass (tumour) resection
- Mammary mass resection
- Thyroidectomy – surgical removal of a thyroid gland for management of cats with hyperthyroidism
- Enucleation – surgical removal of a severely diseased eye
- Gastrotomy/enterotomy – entering of the stomach or intestine, often to remove foreign objects
- Gastric dilation and volvulus (GDV) – emergency surgical correction of twisted stomach
- Splenectomy – surgical removal of the spleen
- Cystotomy – surgical entry into the bladder, often performed to remove urinary stones
- Caesarean section for management of dystocia
“Excellent service vet very kind, experienced and knowledgeable. I popped in to let them know that I was there and then waited for the vet to come out and see the dog. The vet came and calmly sorted out the what was wrong with the dog then went back and prescribed the meds. I went into pick them up and pay. Job done”
Peter
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