Surgery | Dermatology | Cardiology | Internal Med.
Oncology | Neurology | Behavior
Critical Care/Trauma/Intensive Care | Radiology /Ultrasound / MRI

Veterinarian Infomation:

• Kenneth Moore, DVM, DACVS
• Elizabeth Rawson, DVM, DACVS
• Carl T. Jehn, DVM, DACVS

Surgery

A wide variety of soft tissue and orthopedic procedures are performed by the surgeons at Coral Springs Animal Hospital. While under general anesthesia, your pet is closely monitored by our veterinary nursing staff including ECG to monitor heart rate and rhythm, respiration rate, blood pressure, oxygen level, and pulse quality similar to what you’d expect in a human hospital. Ventilators are used to control respiration under anesthesia. Intravenous fluid therapy and other medications are given as needed throughout the procedure. After surgery, close monitoring of vital signs continues in our intensive care unit until there is complete recovery from anesthesia. Pain medications are used to keep your pet comfortable.

Our surgeons collaborate with the other specialists at Coral Springs Animal Hospital in oncology, internal medicine, and cardiology to provide complete, overall care of our patients. In-house diagnostic techniques including digital radiography, fluoroscopy (real time radiology), ultrasound, and scoping equipment allow us to perform any necessary procedures to help our patients. Minimally invasive techniques (thoracoscopy, laparoscopy, arthroscopy, and fluoroscopy) are utilized when possible to increase visualization and to decrease recovery time and postoperative pain.

Availability:

• Regular appointments and scheduled surgeries are available Monday – Saturday
• Emergency surgery coverage is provided 24 hours/day, 7 days/week, 365 days/year by a surgical specialist.

Soft Tissue Surgery Includes:

• Thoracic surgery: removal of lung tumors, diseased pericardial sacs (lining around heart), biopsies for diagnosing thoracic disease
• Laryngeal paralysis surgery, perineal urethrostomy
• Abdominal surgery: removal foreign material from the gastrointestinal tract, removal of stones from the bladder and upper urinary tract, correction of liver shunts and other liver and biliary surgery
• Oncologic surgery: removal of tumors located anywhere inside or on the body

Orthopedic Surgery Includes:

• Fracture repairs
• Bone plating, locking plates, external fixation (including ring fixators), closed repairs using fluoroscopy
• Ligament and tendon repairs
• Procedures to address torn cranial cruciate ligaments include TPLO, extracapsular repair using lateral sutures, and TTA (see detailed descriptions of these procedures under cranial cruciate disease)

Neurologic Surgery Includes:

• Spinal surgery: relief of spinal cord compression in the neck and back

Specialty College:

American College of Veterinary Surgeons