Surgery / Anesthesia

Animal Avian Hospital of the Village is committed to your pet's safety. To this end, we use the most up-to-date anesthetics, equipment, and monitoring protocols available.

• We offer complete pre-anesthetic diagnostics to our surgical patients, including Complete Blood Count, Blood Chemistry Profile, and Diagnostic ECG Analysis. This enables us to evaluate your pet's general health and organ function before surgery. Prior knowledge of sub-clinical health problems is vital to safe surgical procedures.

• The anesthetics we use, sevoflurane and isoflurane, are the safest and most up-to-date anesthetic agents available. They are metabolized quickly with a minimum of side effects. Careful consideration of your pet's health, species, and age determine which anesthesia protocol will be used. Pain medication is given before each procedure and sent home with the patient.

• As a safety precaution, a secured preoperative intravenous catheter is placed before anesthesia. Fluid is administered throughout the anesthetic procedure via the catheter. Occasionally, a pet may start to have complications during anesthesia, and life saving drugs are administered intravenously.

• Intra-operative monitoring and maintenance is essential to the safety of your pet. Our surgical patients are intubated and maintained on a ventilator throughout surgery. Our monitoring capabilities include pulse oximetry (blood oxygen levels), continuous ECG, respiration monitor, core body temperature, and blood pressure. This enables us to maintain the safest level of anesthesia for your pet.

• Animal Avian Hospital of the Village is one of the first hospitals in Houston to use laser technology, and many colleagues refer laser surgery cases to Dr. Jordan. For the past several years, we have used the CO2 laser in all of our surgical procedures. The use of a surgical laser greatly reduces blood loss, surgical time, post-operative discomfort, risk of infection, and scarring. This has greatly increased treatment options available to us, and has even enabled surgical procedures not previously possible!