"It is our desire to provide the highest quality medical and surgical care to our patients and offer the best possible service to our clients. Our clients are friends as well as customers, and we value their continued trust and goodwill." -Dr. Rex Bailey

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Your Pet Portal is a private portion of our website that gives you secure online access to your pet's health information. We provide Pet Portals free of charge to all clients who have an active e-mail address. So don't delay, start managing your pet's care with your Pet Portal today!
Surgery
Our fully equipped modern surgical suite houses the most up to date anesthesia and surgical equipment, allowing our doctors to provide many orthopedic and soft tissue surgical services.

We have the latest technology CO2(carbon dioxide) Laser to provide the best quality care for your pets. With laser surgery, pets experience less pain, less swelling, and less bleeding, and will heal more quickly, returning to normal activities and the home environment sooner.
     The most commonly used surgical laser is a carbon dioxide laser which produces an invisible beam of intense light that vaporizes the water normally found in the skin and other soft tissue. Because the veterinarian can precisely control the laser, only a thin layer of tissue is removed, leaving the surrounding area unaffected.

Laparascopic surgery uses a technique called Minimal Invasive Surgery (MIS). The benefits of this procedure include greatly reducing surgical pain and speeding recovery time. This is due to decreasing the size of the incision to approximately 1/2 in. which allows for less cutting of muscle and other tissue which then decreases post-operative discomfort and decreases recovery time.

Highly trained Technician staff to help ensure your pet's safety and comfort before, during and after surgery.

Fully equipped laboratory , providing quick laboratory results, including blood chemistries and cell counts in those critical cases.

Ultrasound services, providing the most up to date technology in pregnancy diagnosis and other vital information.

In-house x-ray services.

ECG monitor and diagnostic with consultant cardiologist available for problem cases.

Endoscopy to aid in diagnosis of diseases of the stomach and other gastrointestinal diseases.

Daily doctor rounds for discussion of different cases.

Referral and specialist contacts throughout the US.

 

Surgery Guidelines

If your pet is to be anesthetized, rest assured that advances in anesthesia and surgery have made routine procedures relatively safe. Nevertheless, occasional problems can arise due to pre-existing conditions not evident during routine pre-anesthetic examinations. To avoid these problems, we require all pets be screened prior to anesthesia by means of the following laboratory tests:

REQUIRED: ALT (liver), ALKP (gall bladder/liver), BUN (kidney), CREA (kidney), GLU (diabetes, infection), TP (intestine, liver function), Red Cell Count (anemia), White Cell Count (Infection, disease), Platelet Count and Clotting Time (clotting ability).

RECOMMENDED: for dogs and cats over 8 years: Complete Chemistry, Blood Count, Electrolytes and Urinalysis.

This pre-anesthetic screen is not a guarantee against problems, but it will help us deal with a problem should it arise.

We also RECOMMEND an intra-operative ECG to monitor heart function:

PAIN MEDICATION : At Michigan City Animal Hospital it is standard procedure to provide all patients with as comfortable surgery as possible. We feel it is necessary to give a pain injection at the time of surgery and dispense medication to go home with each patient. We try to keep the cost to a minimum.