“Pet Fixers, specialized surgery for unique pets”
If you have been recommended Pet Fixers by your vet is because your pet needs a very specialized treatment to recover from his illness or lesion.
Your pet is a member of your family and we know you want the best care for him. You, your usual vet and Pet Fixers are a team focused on helping your pet recover, we will do everything humanly possible together.
Our Surgeon, Carlos Garcia Plana, has vast experience in complicated cases, infrequent in first opinion practices. He will deeply study the case referred by your vet and will propose the best options.
Pet Fixers owns technical instruments and surgical and diagnostic equipment which are infrequent in first opinion practices due to their specificity and complexity of use.
Pet Fixers will not attend any case that is not referred by a veterinarian.
Before your visit
It is important that your pet is starved (should not eat 8 to 12 hours before the visit) be it for surgery or for certain diagnostic tests that require sedation.
Water should be available up to one hour before the visit. Your usual vet, who knows all the clinical history of your pet, would have asked for any pre-anaesthetic tests he might consider appropriate, if any (blood analysis, electrocardiogram…).
Your information of all the details of the process is important for us, we want you to ask all the doubts you might have, be it about the diagnosis, treatment, prognosis, cost, postoperative care, time of recovery…
During the visit
The person accompanying the patient to the practice must be close and familiarized with all the clinical case, so he can provide us with the most accurate information. Besides this, he must have decision-making capacity about the options that we might propose.
We need you to provide us with a telephone number where you can be contacted, in case there is any specific doubt, to keep you updated, etc.
After the visit
Once at home, you as the patient´s family, play a fundamental role in the recovery process.
Postoperative care is as important or more than the surgery itself. We will give you precise instructions for treatment (medication, rest, wound care, postop revisits…) and it is paramount that they are strictly followed.
Even if we see improvement and he seems to be recovering before schedule, we must commit to the time of recovery and treatment. Going too fast is usually detrimental.
As an example:
“It is good that he wants to run after a fracture (it means he is comfortable), but it is not good to let him do it before the bone is completely ossified”
