Advanced Surgery

At Balmesvet we love animals. We offer our furry friends, dogs and cats, innovative treatments without suffering, and we practice minimally invasive surgery. This veterinary speciality consists of introducing a camera into a cavity in the animal’s body and from other points introducing the instruments necessary to perform the surgery. The entire surgical operation is visualised in real time on an HD quality screen located in the operating theatre.

The advantages of minimally invasive surgery over conventional surgery are immediate postoperative recovery and, therefore, less postoperative pain. In addition, this procedure allows us to reduce pain, swelling, bleeding, the risk of infection and to recover faster with fewer complications. Balmesvet’s surgical team is made up of professionals dedicated exclusively to surgery. Their solid experience goes hand in hand with the most innovative techniques in surgical interventions for cats and dogs.

Operating theatre equipped with the most comprehensive technology:

• Inhalation anaesthesia sevofluorane
• Automatic respirator
• Multiparametric monitor
• Electric scalpel
• Operating theatre lamp
• Oxygen generator
• Compressed air
• Traumatology-neurology motor
• Videoendoscope

Balmesvet’s Surgery Service offers all surgical specialities 24 hours a day, 7 days a week:

• Refractive surgery.
• Traumatology
• Neurosurgery
• Urogenital surgery
• Endocrine surgery
• Oral and maxillofacial surgery
• Thoracic surgery
• Cardiovascular surgery
• Upper respiratory surgery
• Oncological surgery
• Skin/reconstructive surgery

Minimally Invasive Surgery

Over the past 20 years, the use of minimally invasive techniques has increased dramatically in everyday small animal clinics. Therefore, Balmesvet’s aim is to improve the quality of our patients’ care by using minimally invasive techniques, guaranteeing a faster recovery less postoperative pain, which results in a better quality of life. These techniques stem from the need for specialists to perform diagnostic and therapeutic work with minimal damage during access to the target anatomical region. By the very nature of this type of technique, which uses natural orifices or minimal incisions, the specialist uses technology that allows him to handle and visualise “from a distance”; without directly touching the target anatomical region.

The practical applications of veterinary endoscopy are currently very varied.

Flexible endoscopes allow:

• Exploration and sampling of all regions of the digestive tract.(oesophagoscopy, gastroscopy, duodenoscopy, ileoscopy and colonoscopy).
• Examination and sampling of the lower respiratory tract (laryngoscopy, tracheobronchoscopy, tracheobronchoscopy) and nasopharynx.

The main advantages of endoscopy are excellent visualisation of the organs to be explored, lower pain and complication rates, faster recovery and access to areas of the body that are difficult to reach by conventional surgery.

On the other hand, fixed optics are useful for:

• Otoscopy of the external ear and middle ear in patients under general anaesthesia
• Interventional endoscopy in the nasal cavity
• Oral and dental endoscopy
• Rostral rhinoscopy
• Laryngoscopy
• Tracheoscopy of the cranial portion of the trachea in small patients
• Urethrocystoscopy in female dogs
• Vaginoscopy
• Arthroscopy
• Access to abdominal viscera by means of laparoscopic surgery.

 

Not only is there the possibility of observing and taking samples, but also preventive medicine procedures such as gastropexies or curative or support procedures such as the extraction of foreign bodies from the stomach and oesophagus, polyps, placement of gastric tubes for enteral nutrition…

The Balmesvet team will be happy to advise you on any questions that may arise. Please do not hesitate to make an appointment