New Toys at Leesburg Animal Hospital

We are excited about new "toys", as I refer to the them, at Leesburg Animal Hospital. Recently we purchased a Surgical Laser and a Therapy Laser. Both are fancy smancy machines we are using to make our patients feel better. Our surgical laser is a machine that essentially replaces the scalpel blade. We will use it from now on in all of our surgeries. The benefit of using the surgical laser is that it create less pain. Anytime an incision is made into the skin, whether it be for a spay, castration, mass removal, etc, it causes a release of "things" into the bloodstream that cause pain. By using the surgical laser it will hopefully reduce those pain "things" and thereby reduce the patent's discomfort. Another great advantage of the surgical laser is for the surgeon. It provides great hemostasis (hemo-blood; stasis-staying/stopping). In other words there is much less blood in the incision site and the surgeon can see what she is doing.

Our next new toy is a laser as well, but a different kind. It is a therapy laser. A therapy laser is exactly that...a therapeutic laser. We are using it to treat pain associated with osteoarthritis, wound healing, wound contamination and many other types of inflammatory problems. So far we are having great results with both or our machines.

Soon I will post a picture of our fabulous new toys. Feel free to drop by and see them and ask questions.