We monitor our patients to keep them as safe as possible during procedures that require general anesthesia. A veterinary technician will continually assess your pet’s heart and respiratory rate, blood pressure, and other vital signs to help prevent any anesthetic risk.
One aspect of anesthetic monitoring that Pine Cone Pet Hospital uses that most practices do not is constant Blood Pressure monitoring. Blood pressure is one of the best ways to monitor the depth of anesthesia and a good indicator of whether to increase or decrease the level of anesthetic gas that your pet is receiving. Most practices do not even have the ability to check blood pressure, and the ones that do will check it manually once or twice during the procedure. At Pine Cone Pet Hospital our anesthetic monitor gives the doctor and veterinary technician a constant readout of blood pressure measured every couple of minutes. This is an example of one of the many small details that we consider important, that other veterinary clinics may not have to keep the cost down. Outwardly you cannot compare apples to apples when comparing prices of veterinary care. Ultimately how do you want your pet treated? We fundamentally make lives better, we just happen to be a great Veterinary Hospital.
Please feel free to ask us about our patient monitoring protocol or any concerns you might have about your pet’s procedure.
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Our veterinarians at Pine Cone Pet Hospital, serving the pet and animal parents of Sartell, St. Cloud, Sauk Rapids, Waite Park, St. Joseph, Rice and St. Stephen, MN since 2001.