Project Description
Here at Charter Vets we offer RCVS advanced practitioners offering referral level surgery and treatments at our Veterinary Hospital in Barnstaple.
Whatever the time of day or night, if your pet needs intensive care, we are here to provide it.
MiNightVet are our preferred emergency services partner. They are a dedicated emergency service with full-time night staff who will be alert and effective even at unsociable hours. Their qualified vets and nurses have a special interest, experience and training in all aspects of urgent critical care. Their support allows our vets to be fully refreshed for the day shift.
Our intensive care services for your pet takes full advantage of modern techniques and procedures, resulting in positive outcomes wherever possible. Veterinary Surgeon, Dave Tittle has additional qualifications in Veterinary Anaesthesia, with a particular interest in Emergency and Critical Care techniques.
Our intensive care service mean you pet can benefit from:
Emergency triage and stabilisation
Emergency surgery
Small animal incubators
Critical monitoring of vital parameters
Accurate recording of changes in condition
Fluid therapy
Fluid resuscitation techniques
Blood transfusion
Infusion/Constant Rate Infusion of analgesics, anaesthesia, sedation and medication
Ventilation
Resuscitation protocols
ICU – intermediate duration sedation
Analgesia
The analgesia service runs alongside other disciplines within the Charter Group, in particular orthopaedic, soft tissue and neurosurgery.
Your pet’s pain relief during all procedures is our utmost concern. As such, we have a range of modern agents and techniques available to minimise pain before during and after procedures.
Our approach is tailored to each individual patient and your pet is monitored by our fully trained staff. Patient comfort, including the provision of adequate pain relief, is of paramount importance to us.
We offer:
Pre-emptive/progressive analgesic regimes
Multi-modal analgesic protocols
Acupuncture
Infusion/constant rate infusion therapy
Epidurals
Regional analgesic technique
Acupuncture
Chronic Pain Management Clinics
Anaesthesia
Your pet’s safety during operations is of utmost concern and we can offer a range of advanced anaesthetic agents and techniques.
These can be tailored to the individual patient, and are monitored by our fully trained staff. Dave Tittle has additional qualifications in Veterinary Anaesthesia and he ensures we use the most appropriate anaesthetic for your pet.
We offer:
In-house pre-anaesthetic blood profiles
Intravenous fluid administration
Modern anaesthetic drugs
Comprehensive anaesthetic monitoring
Heart Rate
Respiratory Rate
Pulse Oximetry
ECG
Carbon dioxide
Temperature
Non-invasive blood pressure
Total Intravenous Anaesthesia (TIVA)
Ventilatory Support
Post-operative monitoring/recovery
Monitoring
Patients from any of our clinics requiring overnight care are hospitalised at Charter Veterinary Hospital, Barnstaple.
MiNightVet are our preferred emergency services partner. They are a dedicated emergency service with full-time night staff who will be alert and effective even at unsociable hours. Their qualified vets and nurses have a special interest, experience and training in all aspects of urgent critical care. Their support allows our vets to be fully refreshed for the day shift.
We are proud to have a fully equipped Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons approved veterinary hospital so you can rest assured that your pet will always receive the highest quality professional care, backed by a wide range of state-of-the-art facilities and uncompromising service levels.
Our Roundswell Hospital boasts an Intensive Care ‘Hub’. Situated in the ‘Prep’ area, this facility enables close and round the clock monitoring of
critical patients, and delivery of continuous nursing care, and oxygen therapy.
We are able to rapidly monitor:
Continuous ECG
Pulse oximetry
Changes in blood parameters
Heart rate
Respiratory rate
Carbon dioxide
Non-invasive and invasive blood pressure
Temperature
Electronic fluid administration rates
Anaesthesia and Intensive Care
Referral level intensive care and anaesthesia at Charter Vets veterinary hospital with a team on-site 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
Orthopaedics & spinal surgery
At Charter Veterinary Hospital we can offer a highly equipped dedicated Orthopaedic Theatre working to AO protocols.
Dentistry and oral surgery
Dentistry and oral surgery Tom Williams’ interest in veterinary dentistry started when a European Specialist in this discipline visited our hospital and used our facilities to provide training
Onsite CT scanning
Onsite CT Scanning CT scanning at Charter vets - we are amongst the first to offer an on-site veterinary computed tomography (CT) scanning service in the south west.
Visiting specialist ultrasonography
Ultrasound Imaging No matter how thorough our vets are, some diagnoses require more than just a physical examination alone. That’s why we can use special ultrasound scanners, which
Pain & Mobility clinics
Pain & Mobility Clinics Like us, our animals experience pain and discomfort in a variety of forms and to varying degrees. As they are unable to tell us in