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:

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  • 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:

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  • Pre-emptive/progressive analgesic regimes

  • Multi-modal analgesic protocols

  • Acupuncture

  • Infusion/constant rate infusion therapy

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:

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  • 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:

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  • 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

Need to arrange a referral?

Call us on 01271 371115 or email referrals@chartervets.com with your client contact details, patient details, a prioritised summary of the history, and any supportive imaging, lab work and full clinical notes file. For imaging, original sized jpeg exports are still helpful but dicoms are even better, which can be shared via Dropbox to the above email address.