Soft Tissue Surgery
Heather Joins Our Expert Soft Tissue Team
We’re delighted to announce we’ve recruited Soft Tissue Surgeon Heather Williams to our team. Heather joins us from the University of Liverpool’s Small Animal Teaching Hospital, where she worked as a clinician and lecturer in small animal surgery. She has a keen interest in wound management and reconstruction, and oncological surgery. Heather said: “I am…
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Soft Tissue Surgery The most common cause in dogs is acute non-traumatic haemoabdomen secondary to malignant neoplasia causing splenic rupture. Other causes include trauma, iatrogenic following surgery (e.g. ovariectomy) or diagnostics (e.g. FNA), coagulopathies or torsion of the liver or spleen. Abdominocentesis will reveal blood that does not clot. The PCV of the blood will…
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Soft Tissue Surgery Vacuum Assisted Closure Vacuum assisted closure (VAC) or negative pressure wound therapy (NPWT) is a simple but effective method to promote rapid wound healing. It has been shown to be effective for management of large, complex, acute wounds as well as chronic wounds that have failed to heal by conventional methods. It…
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Soft Tissue Surgery Maximising Success with Intestinal Suturing Enterotomy and enterectomy are commonly performed procedures in practice due to the frequent occurrence of gastrointestinal foreign bodies. Although these are common procedures, good surgical technique is essential as the consequences of dehiscence are devastating with the development of septic peritonitis. The mortality rate associated with septic…
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