Quality Veterinary Care For Your Pet
Now Two Locations:
9450 South Northshore Dr # 105
Knoxville, TN 37922
(865) 560-0480
3075 Lois Lane
Alcoa, TN 37701
(865) 984-5620
Monday Through Friday
7:30 am to 5:30 pm
Saturday
7:30 am to 12 noon
email us:
care@mypetsanimalhospital.com
Home Our Mission Statement:
About Us
Boarding
Coupons
Appointments Online
Hospital Tour
Pet Medical Topics
Elective Surgeries
Feedback
VIN Friends
Resources
Pets provide our lives with much joy, intrigue, humor, protection and comfort.
My Pet's Animal Hospital is a compassionate, honest, and educated team of people with clean, well-equipped facilities to serve our clients and their pets with the best possible animal care always.
We believe that we can achieve this in a fun, patient-focused environment.
Our purpose is to celebrate and enhance the human-animal bond. ©2000-2009
Elective Surgeries
at My Pet's Animal HospitalAt My Pet's Animal Hospital, special care is taken to make sure that your pet receives a safe anesthetic, proper monitoring and blood screening. We also provide pain medication to your pet before the surgery as a preventive medication and after surgery to go home with. Unfortunately, not all pet hospitals do this routinely. Our promise to you is that we will treat your pet as our own and only perform anesthesia in a manner that we would be comfortable with performing on our own pets.
When your pet first arrives at our hospital on surgery day, one of our doctors will examine him or her before anything else is done. We want to make sure that all of your pet's vital signs are normal, and that your pet has a normal heart rate and rhythm.
Next, a small blood sample is taken for your pet's pre-anesthetic bloodwork. This bloodwork includes a CBC and a screening chemistry panel. If there are any significant abnormalities in this bloodwork, the doctor will notify you before proceeding further. Diseases such as diabetes, kidney or liver problems and anemia are just some that can be diagnosed with pre-anesthetic bloodwork. Please note that pre-anesthetic bloodwork is just as important for young patients as well as old. Many congenital conditions can be diagnosed in young pets (for example, a portosystemic liver shunt in a Yorkshire terrier may show some abnormalities in its bloodwork).
Once the bloodwork is completed, your pet will be given pre-medications which include a sedative, and two types of pain medications. After the sedative has taken effect, the process of anesthetic induction will begin. Every anesthetic patient is intubated (a tube is placed within the windpipe to facilitate the delivery of oxygen) and then connected to the anesthesia machine. In addition to direct monitoring by our medical team, each patient is monitored with an ECG, pulse oximetry, respiratory rate and temperature machine.
After surgery is completed, the initial sedative given your pet is reversed, and the anesthetic is turned off. Your pet will be monitored fully until he or she is completely awake in our recovery area.
