Healing Paws Veterinary Clinic

Healing Paws is a wellness and urgent care animal hospital located in Springfield, MO.

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Veterinary Surgery

We understand that the concept of veterinary surgery on your pet can be scary. Our veterinary team has highly skilled and compassionate doctors that are dedicated to improving the quality of life of your pet. We always offer both surgical and non-surgical options for you and your pet, looking for the most comprehensive holistic approach possible.

We offer everything from minimally invasive procedures to more intensive procedures depending on your pet’s circumstances… and your financial capabilities. We understand that pet health care can be an extra expense, and we always strive to offer care at a reasonable price.

Surgery
Examples of surgical procedures provided at our animal clinic:

  • Elective spay and neuter
  • Emergency surgical care
  • Gastroenterologic procedures
  • Urinary procedures
  • Routine and extensive dental procedures
  • Cancer-related surgery and reconstruction
  • Wound care

Surgery can be stressful for pets and their owners, but your pet’s health and safety, and comfort is our animal hospital’s top priority. Our veterinarians and team work hard to make sure your pet receives safe, predictable anesthesia and is offered a comfortable recovery. To help ensure this, bloodwork is required for any pet over six years old prior to any invasive procedures so we can ensure they are clear of any infections and are able to accept the anesthesia during the surgery. This way, if for some reason your pet is unable to accept surgery or anesthetics, we can discuss alternatives for your pet.

 

Tooptimize anesthetic safety, our veterinarians use:

  • Well-trained and proficient technical personnel
  • A variety of sensitive cardiopulmonary monitoring devices
  • Continuous electrocardiography
  • Oxygen saturation monitoring
  • CO2 and respiratory monitoring
  • Continuous temperature and blood pressure monitoring
  • Warming devices to help maintain safe body temperature

To minimize post-operative pain, our veterinarians use:

  • Minimally invasive surgical techniques whenever possible
  • Local and regional anesthetic blocks
  • Intravenous and intramuscular narcotic pain relievers
  • Oral pain relievers to be given at home

COVID-19 Service Announcement

Effective March 17, 2020 until further notice
 
We at Healing Paws Veterinary Clinic understand the spread of viruses because we deal with them every day in our patients. Therefore, we are keenly aware how a virus on the scale of COVID-19 can quickly impact the health of our clients and team members. Veterinary clinics are considered essential services. Therefore, our team has to stay as healthy as possible in order to continue caring for your pets in the months to come.
 
As a precaution, we are going immediately to curbside service. Please bring your cell phone to your visit and call the front desk at (417) 886-7070 when you arrive. A team member will come outside and retrieve your pet and perform their veterinary services while you wait in the comfort of your own car. We will provide the same service for prescription medication and prescription food pick up. We also ask that if you are showing any signs of illness that you reschedule your visit or send another caregiver with your pet. If we all work together and take the risk seriously and help mitigate spread and exposure, we will be able to better keep our team healthy so we can be here for pets who need us. Please be patient with us as we work to continue to serve our community.