There are always risks that their blood pressure could drop, or their heart rate could drop too low. We want that to be under control during anesthesia, and that's why we monitor those things. In most of our procedures, we’ve also taken the next step in placing an IV catheter and having the pet on fluids to support them. So we try to minimize those risks with monitoring and by doing some preventative measures. We also use multimodal anesthesia. So, again, I mentioned pre-medication. So by giving multiple steps along the way, we can reduce the overall load of sedation that we give.

That's a great general question. So it depends on what type of surgery that is. We wouldn't recommend a surgery unless we thought it was effective for whatever the problem would be. But of course, some prognoses are better than others.

We hope to be able to control that pain. Surgeries are painful procedures by definition, but we control that pain by giving them pain medication before surgery. We call that our pre-medication. We provide them with pain medication during the surgery, and then we send them home medication afterward. We also control pain through our cold laser, our K-Laser, a non-medication, but it is a pain control.

Beforehand we've probably communicated with you as far as the general procedure, what to expect, and when we will follow up with you to let you know how the pet's doing. We offer multiple ways to communicate, whether through texting or calling. Sometimes we send pictures and things like that during recovery, and you can always call in and check on your pet if you want to. We do have the occasional client that stays with us during the procedure. You cannot be right there with them during the surgery, but you can stay at our clinic if you don't want to leave them. But the majority of our clients we call or text.

In most of our surgeries, they will be intubated. There are certain minor procedures where they may only have IV anesthesia.