Services

Find out more about our Veterinary services we have to offer

Our Services

When it comes to the health and well-being of your beloved pets, you want nothing but the best. At Dragon Referrals, we understand that your friends deserve top-notch care. That's why we're proud to offer a comprehensive range of referral veterinary services, encompassing medicine, orthopaedic surgery and soft tissue surgery.

Surgery

Surgery: Orthopaedics (includes imaging)

Fractures (includes post-operative hospitalisation)

  • Long bone fractures
  • Pelvic traumas 
  • Growth plate fractures
  • Mandibular fractures

Cruciate Disease

  • Lateral suture
  • TTA
  • TPLO

Pancarpal/tarsal Arthrodesis

Surgery: Soft tissue

Abdominal (including diagnostics and hospitalisation)

  • Splenectomy
  • Enterectomy
  • Enterotomy 
  • Cholecystectomy 
  • Liver lobectomy
  • Laparoscopic liver biopsy
  • Cystotomy
  • Pyometra

Maxillofacial/Oral

  • BOAS surgery
  • Laryngeal tieback 
  • TECA 
  • Mandibulectomy

Thoracic (including CT diagnostics and hospitalisation)

  • Lung Lobectomy
  • PDA Ligation
  • Diaphragmatic rupture
  • Pericardiectomy
  • Pyothorax exploratory surgery and mediastinal resection

Spinal

  • Hemilaminectomy

Misc

  • Wound reconstruction, flaps/grafts
  • Placement of oesophagostomy feeding tube
  • Placement of PEG feeding tube

Medicine

Gastrointestinal disease investigations: chronic vomiting/diarrhoea

  • Blood/faecal testing, sedation/GA for ultrasonography, radiography, endoscopy with biopsies
  • Haemorrhagic gastroenteritis (Mild/moderate)
  • Haemorrhagic gastroenteritis (Severe, blood transfusions)

Cardiology

  • Pre-anaesthetic echocardiography (determines suitability for anaesthesia/fluids only)
  • Full echocardiography with concurrent ECG & BP & consult
  • Murmur investigation congenital/acquired: (includes blood testing/BP/6-lead ECG/bubble study as appropriate)
  • Initial investigations and management of acute congestive heart failure 
  • Investigations into syncope
  • 24-48h Holter ECG
  • Investigations into pericardial effusion +/- CT and stabilisation

Respiratory disease (chronic coughing/wheezing/nasal discharge/tachypnoea)

  • Blood work, radiography, bronchoscopy/rhinoscopy with bronchoalveolar lavage/biopsies +/- CT +/- thoracic ultrasound woth with fine-needle aspirates/trucut biopsies

Urogenital disease (incontinence, haematuria/dysuria, vaginal/penile discharge, obstruction)

  • Bloods and urinalysis (including culture and sensitivity), radiography (+/- contrast), abdominal ultrasound +/- ultrasound-guided biopsies, +/- CT
  • Blocked cat (stable) - imaging, urethral catheterisation, bloods & urinalysis, hospitalisation
  • Blocked cat (unstable: electrolyte derangements, acute kidney injury, bladder rupture) - stabilisation, sedation/anaesthesia for imaging, urethral catheterisation, bloods & urinalysis, hospitalisation

Polyuria/polydipsia

  • Blood & urine testing, abdominal ultrasound, survey radiography +/- ultrasound-guided biopsies +/- dynamic hormone testing +/- CT
  • Diabetes mellitus initial investigations and stabilisation 
  • DKA management

Pyrexia of unknown origin

  • Blood & urine testing, survey radiography & abdominal ultrasound or CT +/- arthrocentesis +/- CSF collection and analysis, hospitalisation and fluids/medications as required

Immune-mediated & Haematological disturbances (anaemia, thrombocytopenia, white cell abnormalities)

  • Anaemic dog/cat investigations & management 
  • IMHA: Acute/decompensated: (laboratory testing, imaging (+/- CT), stabilisation with blood transfusions, hospitalisation and management)
  • IMHA: Well-compensated & mild: (laboratory testing, imaging (+/- CT), predominately outpatient stabilisation)
  • IMTP: Severe/Acute: (laboratory testing, imaging (+/- CT), hospitalisation and management)
  • IMTP: Mild/compensated (laboratory testing, imaging (+/- CT), predominately outpatient stabilisation)
  • IMPA: Laboratory testing, imaging (+/- CT), arthrocentesis (multiple joints), +/- CSF sampling, hospitalisation and management
  • SRMA: Laboratory testing, imaging (+/- CT), CSF collection, hospitalisation and management

Neurological disease

  • Status Epilepticus: Intensive hospitalisation inc blood/urine testing, constant monitoring and treatments as required (e.g. midazolam/levetiracetam/propofol infusion, urinary catheterisation)
  • SRMA as above
  • Investigations into seizures: Biochemistry/haematology/dynamic bile acids, CT imaging and CSF collection
  • Investigations into a suspected spinal lesion: CT, myelo-CT, +/- CSF collection, hospitalisation and management

Oncology
(specialist oncologist advice – VetCT telemedicine)

  • Cancer diagnosis and staging (including imaging, sampling and cytology/histopathology)
  • CHOP Protocol dog/cat: (includes bloods, fluids, PPE, and echocardiography pre-doxorubicin)
  • Many other chemotherapy protocols, including mast cell tumour treatment, transitional cell carcinoma treatment, lymphoma rescue protocols and more

Out-patient CT

Our out-patient CT service allows surrounding practices to obtain a thorough radiologist CT report for their patients with a fast-turnaround (typically within 4 hours to 4 days), with the added benefit of reducing travel time for their clients. 

 Common cases this is used for include:

  • Acute and chronic lameness, e.g. elbow and hip dysplasia, humeral intercondylar fissures, pelvic fractures, complicated long bone fractures
  • Cancer staging
  • Spinal pain/Intervertebral disc disease
  • Surgical planning, e.g. invasive subcutaenous masses
  • Behavioural cases to help exclude underlying causes of pain
  • Epileptic cases to help exclude large space-occupying masses
  • Immune-mediated cases to help exclude underlying triggers
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