All Animals Medical Center is constantly striving to bring the most up to date technology into our practice in order to better diagnose and treat our patients.  Endoscopy is used in the human medical field very successfully and with good reason.  Who can argue with less pain, minimal recovery time and fewer complications?  Not us and certainly not your pet!  We offer endoscopy for a variety of procedures. 

If your pet has ever eaten something they were not supposed to, had a fox tail lodged in its nose,  joint problems, bladder or urinary problems or a blockage of some sort these can be resolved more quickly and easily with endoscopy, whereas in the past surgery would have been required.  What is the difference between surgery and endoscopy?  Veterinary endoscopy is a minimally invasive technique for performing procedures through natural openings in the body or through one or more tiny holes rather than through large incisions.  A tiny camera is used to help navigate and the Drs. can see the images projected on a screen. 

I was amazed while witnessing a tricky surgery on a bird of prey that had eaten something shot with lead.  The bird was slowly being poisoned by the lead inside its stomach.  A major surgery to open up the bird would have been too risky.  Instead the bird was sedated and the Drs. used endoscopy to investigate.  Tiny pieces of lead shot were slowly revealed and removed one by one with the smallest tweezers I had ever seen.  Upon examination of the lead that had looked like the size of pencil erasers on screen I discovered that some were barely larger than the head of a pin.  It would have been a long and tedious surgery without the aid of the endoscope with more risk to the patient.  Thanks to Dr. Molnar and Dr. Milliken the bird made a full recovery and was released back into the wild.  Once again proving the skill of our Drs. and the wonders of endoscopy.