Best Friend's Veterinary Center
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Best Friend's Veterinary Center is dedicated to providing warm, loving, knowledgeable care for companion pets. Dr. Eric Anderson, Director invites you to visit and have a behind the scenes tour of our award winning facility. We think you will be delighted to see the level of care an American Animal Hospital Association hospital can provide. Meet Drs. Eric Anderson, Erica Syring, and Crystal Brazle. Contest Announcement: Come up with a cool name and score $50 in free services.
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Our Hours: Phone: For after hours emergency
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Laser Surgery
Laser Surgery means: Less pain, Less Bleeding, Less Swelling, Quicker Recovery. A rapidly growing number of Washington veterinarians are among the first in the world to offer surgical laser capabilities for animals.
Once only the dream of science fiction writers, the power of a laser can now be harnessed to provide a wide variety of veterinary surgical applications with truly amazing results. We are very experienced at Best Friend's Veterinary Center having used the laser on over 1,000 procedures in the last 5 years.
The word LASER is an acronym for "Light Amplification by the Stimulated Emission of Radiation." In effect, a laser beam is a highly concentrated and powerful beam of light that interacts with tissue in some remarkable ways. Veterinarians use Carbon Dioxide (CO2) lasers because of their incredible precision. The laser beam is so accurate that an area less than one millimeter in diameter can be treated, while scarcely affecting surrounding tissue. This is extremely important in lesions and tumors around the eyes and in the mouth.
Anesthesia & Surgery
Anesthesia is one of the most critical aspects of surgery for your pet. We take our commitment to you seriously and offer the following:
Pre Anesthetic Blood screens are offered to any patient under a year and required for all patients over a year to screen for anesthetic risks.
Ultra safe anesthesia. Isoflurane and Sevoflurane gas anesthesia are available. Sevoflurane is the same anesthetic used in most human hospitals for pediatrics. We routinely use human anesthesia machines to administer anesthesia vapors to your pets.
Intravenous catheters and IV fluids help to keep your pet stabilized during the procedure and allow for immediate access to veins for administration of reversal agents and medication for shock or pain.
Warm water circulating pads and warmed fluid IV pumps help your special friend stay warm during procedures where they otherwise would loose heat. Anesthetized patients can not thermo regulate.
Pulse Oximetry Monitors the heart rate and oxygen rate. It is placed on every patient placed under anesthesia.