Our state-of-the-art facilities

The Animal Referral Centre was built in 2000 and houses Animal Emergency Service and Veterinary Specialist Services. The Hospital is designed to allow first class medical and surgical treatment of veterinary patients. We have developed intensive care strategies to enable life saving treatment of the sickest patients.

Lets go on a tour through the facilities, and look at how our services have helped some patients.

Radiology

The facility has a modern xray machine and automated processor allowing rapid diagnosis of many medical and surgical conditions.

Ultrasound

The practice has recently purchased a top of the range Mylab 30 Ultrasound machine. This machine allows us to 'look into' the abdomen more effectively than xrays, and helps with diagnosis of many debilitating diseases such as pancreatitis

Blood Tests

Animal Emergency Service has a full in house laboratory which enables blood evaluation at any time of day or night. We do not have to rely on an external laboratory for these tests.

Surgery

Sometimes emergency surgery is required to save a patients life. We are well equipped with a surgical suite containing anaesthetic machine, hydraulic table, and monitoring equipment. Of course the most important part of the surgery is the veterinary surgeon- we train all veterinarians to develop competency and have highly skilled surgeons on call at all times.

Monitoring

Our monitoring equipment allows us to care for the most critical patients. Monitors we use commonly include:

• Pulse oximeter
• ECG
• Blood Pressure
• Capnograph

Intensive Care

We are here to provide intensive care for your pet when they need it most. It is important to us as veterinarians and pet owners that we do it well. All hospitalised patients are under constant supervision by qualified nurses and vets.

Blood Bank

We have immediate access to blood transfusions and plasma transfusions should these be necessary.

Anti-Venene

We stock sufficient quantities of antivenene for all common snakes in the greater Brisbane area. We also have supplies of Tick anti serum.

Oxygen Therapy

We can provide oxygen supplementation with nasal tubes, and specially designed cages. When this is not enough to support a patients breathing we can use an artificial ventilator.

Ventilator

Some of the patients we see are too ill to breathe on their own. This is often the case with severe tick paralysis and snake bite. The facility uses the Bear 1000 paediatric ventilator to support these patients through their illness. There are some remarkable success stories including “Charlie” who became paralysed after eating a toad fish, and “Sam” the Cavalier King Charles Spaniel with Tick Paralysis who stayed on the ventilator for 5 days.

Hospitalisation

Although our hospital has the best equipment, comfortable bedding and temperature controlled cages, it would not be half the facility without the dedicated, compassionate team of veterinarians and nurses who stay awake all night to look after your pet.

Endoscopy

We all know some dogs have eyes bigger than their stomachs and the biggest use we have of our video endoscope is the removal of bones, fishhooks, rubber balls and anything else a dog takes a fancy to!