Equine surgery
Caring for your horse with our expert team.
The Charter equine department provides:
• Vets with higher post-graduate qualifications in equine surgery.
• Years of experience in a range of surgical procedures.
• Vets experienced and focused on equine anesthesia.
• Qualified veterinary nurses.
• Surgical specialists brought in for arthroscopic (key-hole) surgery.
• A fully equipped equine surgical theatre with separate padded recovery box.
Extensive surgical caseload
• Trauma surgery
• Dental surgery
• Colic surgery
• Reproductive surgery
• Head and neck surgery including laryngeal tie-backs,sinus surgery and soft palate surgery.
Referral service
We provide a medical and surgical referral service to practices in the south west, giving a large number of horses access to our clinical and surgical expertise and
equipment. Many veterinary practices know and trust our clinical and surgical expertise sending us patients including:
• Colics
• Trauma surgery
• Retained testicles
• Septic joint management
• Arthroscopic surgery, joint abnormalities, joint fractures
• Head and neck surgery
• Dental surgery
