Small Animal Referral Services - Surgery services

Our facilities and up-to-date surgical equipment, coupled with integrated support from world-class anaesthesia, intensive care, and medicine sections means that your clients receive a very high standard of care across all aspects of surgical management.

We can provide expertise in both Soft tissue/Oncologic surgery and Orthopedic/Neurosurgery. The oncologic surgeons work closely with the Murdoch Animal Cancer Care Unit so that your clients pet receives a multidisciplinary approach to help achieve the best possible outcome.

We are happy to consult on any case and can offer surgery for your clients pet regardless of how simple or complicated the case may be. We will work closely with you in optimizing the postoperative management so that the best and most convenient care is offered to the pet and client during the recovery period.

Please do not hesitate to call or contact the surgery service directly via our Surgery Nursing Coordinator who is available during office hours, by telephone on 9360 6275 or email at surgery@murdoch.edu.au for any enquiries you may have.

Some of the specialty surgeries we offer:

Soft tissue/Oncologic surgery

• Laparoscopy - prophylactic gastropexy, ovariohysterectomy, exploratory and laparoscopic assisted biopsies, laparoscopic assisted cystotomy

• Thoracoscopy - exploration and biopsy, pericardectomy

• Complex thoracic surgery - lung lobectomy, vascular ring anomalies, oesophageal disease, pleural disease/effusion, chylothorax

• Vascular surgery - PDA, intra and extrahepatic portosystemic shunts

• Upper airway surgery - brachycephalic airway syndrome, laryngeal paralysis, nasal disease, permanent tracheostomy

• Abdominal surgery - liver/splenic mass resections, adrenalectomy, gastrointestinal resections, pancreatic disease, biliary obstruction, cholecystectomy (gall bladder mucocele, rupture), peritonitis

• Complex wound management - trauma, bite wounds

• Complex cancer resections - mandibulectomy/maxillectomy, chest wall reconstruction

• Plastic and reconstructive surgeries - large mass excision, herniorraphy (perineal, body wall, diaphragmatic, peritoneal-pericardial, inguinal)

• Urogenital - ectopic ureters, kindey and bladder neoplasia, urolithiasis, urethral obstruction and urethrostomy, prostatic abscesses/cysts

• Head and neck surgery - total ear canal ablation, mucoceles, nasopharyngeal disease, middle ear disease, head and neck tumors

• Limb sparing procedures for bone cancer

• Full adjunctive chemotherapy and monitoring

Orthopaedic/Neurosurgery

• Arthroscopy for joint disease - elbow, shoulder, stifle

• Total hip replacements (cemented and uncemented)

• TPLO procedures for cranial cruciate ligament rupture including arthroscopic joint inspection

• Ring fixator dynamic treatment of growth deformities

• Complex fracture repairs

• Minimally invasive fracture repair

• Canine sports injury treatment

• Lameness management

• Myelography and CT diagnostic imaging - joint disease, spinal disease

• Spinal decompression and stabilisation surgical procedures - intervertebral disc disease, spinal neoplasia, spinal fractures, cauda equine, AA luxation, cervical spondylopathy, spinal fractures

• 24 hour intensive nursing care for paralysed patients

Emergency surgery

• Our surgeons provide 24 hour / 365 days a year emergency surgical service through the Murdoch Pet Emergency Centre.