31/07/2025
Everybody meet our staff pet Nessa 🥰
Nessa is a 13 year old Shar Pei x Whippet and belongs to our lovely Veterinary Surgeon, Beth 😊
Nessa was brought in for a dental procedure this week as even though she has always had great teeth, at her older age, she needed a canine and and incisor extracting 🦷
With our geriatric patients coming in for an anaesthetic, we always recommend pre-anaesthetic bloods to check organ functions prior.
In this case, Nessa did show to have elevated kidney values meaning that her kidneys are struggling a little bit in her older age 🙁. With this knowledge, we could tailor the anaesthetic around this and we can now run further tests to stage the kidney disease to ensure we slow down any deteriorations going forward.
Pre-anaesthetic blood tests are included in our dental package and are always offered as an optional extra before any procedures that are carried out under anaesthetic.
Nessa has made a fabulous recovery from her anaesthetic and will continue to have her bloods monitored quarterly! ❤️