Anesthesia and Pain Management

Every anesthetic or pain management case is considered of major importance. Our team is constantly on guard for changes in respiratory and cardiovascular activity, or unexpected events which, although rare, may occur during surgery

Pain is actually a wide spectrum of disorders including acute pain, chronic pain and cancer pain and sometimes a combination of these. Pain can also arise for many different reasons such as surgery, injury, nerve damage, and metabolic problems such as diabetes. Occasionally, pain can even be the problem all by itself, without any obvious cause at all.

Anesthesia is a complete or partial loss of physical sensation. While under certain types of anesthesia your pet is unconscious, which is why they undergo continuous physiological monitoring to ensure safety.

We use a variety of techniques for managing pain, including:

• Injections: Local anesthetics injected in or near nerves may reduce pain and inflammation in particular parts of the body.
• Nerve blocks: We inject special medicines into large nerve clusters to reduce or eliminate pain in particular parts of the body.
• Opioid medicines: These pills may reduce pain to manageable levels when taken as directed.
• Electrical stimulation: We use a small, hand held device to stimulate nerves through the skin to reduce pain.