Val, a technician at Heron Lakes Animal Hospital, walks through pre-surgery prep for London, a young dog having a vulvoplasty. Blood work checks CBC and electrolytes, an EKG and chest X-rays screen for problems, and fasting before surgery reduces the risk of aspiration under anesthesia.
Hi everyone, my name is Val. I'm a technician here at Heron Lakes Animal Hospital. Here I have with me London, who is a female spring husband and she's about six months and we are preparing her for a vulvoplasty surgery which she will be having tomorrow. So she's here today for her pre surgical appointment and what she's getting done today is one some blood work. We like to run blood work before surgery just to make sure everything functioning correctly. Her white blood cell count is great, her red blood cell count is great. And as well as her platelets and electrolytes, she will also be going home with some pre sur medications. Sometimes what pre surgical medications should be going home with are anti inflammatories, anti nausea and anti acids as well. And then also next for London, she will be getting an electrocardiogram. We just want to make sure that our heart's functioning well, that everything sounds great, so that everything is safe and she is at her best for the surgery tomorrow. And sometimes, unlike in London's case right now, we would recommend doing chest X rays. We normally recommend those for our older patients, but she's too young for that. But the reason why we recommend that is because just again to verify that her heart is in fact functioning great, everything is safe, and that the patient is under the best circumstances for anesthesia. And then also for London, she will have to be fasted for the surgery. Just as the surgery is tomorrow, we will see her bright and early tomorrow without any fluid in her tummy. We recommend fasting because sometimes with all the drugs they can wake up sometimes nauseous. Even though we send them home with anti nudges, we don't want them to throw up, aspirate, anything like that. We want them to also recover and wake up great from the surgery. And then also she, like I said, she will need that IV catheter so she will be care first thing in the morning so we can set her up and prep her and make sure that everything goes smooth for this procedure. If you guys have any questions on what to do, what to expect or how to do certain things before surgery and make sure that your pet is the best prepared, please like this video, share this video and leave your question in the comments and we'll get back to you as soon as we can. Thanks for watching and have a great day.
