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 pet receives a very high standard of care across all aspects of surgical management.

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

You may have been referred to one of those services by your veterinarian if your pet requires any of the following treatments;

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, kidney 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 a 24 hour / 365 days a year emergency surgical service through the Murdoch Pet Emergency Centre.