Anaesthesia and Analgesia

Overview

All patients are treated as individuals to ensure that care is tailored to meet their needs. We have a full suite of monitoring equipment to ensure that physiological parameters are maintained within normal limits during anaesthesia and sedation, promoting a fast recovery from anaesthesia and surgery. Optimising perioperative pain management is a key goal, to ensure that animals have, as far as possible, a pain-free experience while undergoing treatment with us.

Pain Management Clinics are available here at MVS and suitable for patients with nerve or muscular pathologies. Although drug-based therapies are important, with a medication plan being formed at the initial consultation, we often utilise multiple modalities (e.g. acupuncture) to treat a patient’s pain and to improve their quality of life.

The benefits of the Specialist-led anaesthesia service at MVS are:

• A Specialist in anaesthesia oversees that our standards at MVS are as high as possible
• Use of advanced monitoring equipment such as direct arterial blood pressure measurement where appropriate
• Routine use of local and regional anaesthetic techniques using ultrasound guidance
• Use of complex multimodal analgesia techniques involving systemic and local analgesia
• Tailoring of analgesia based on the demands of each patient.