Surgery and Diagnostics

Blackwater Vets is fully equipped with the trained staff and the surgical and diagnostic equipment needed to provide your pet a gold standard service whenever they stay. Using the most modern of anaesthetic regimes, techniques and technology services include:

• Digital radiography
• Ultrasonography
• Cutting edge dental equipment including a high speed dental drill.
• Internal laboratory machines: Enable haematological, biochemical and electrolyte analysis of blood samples within 15 minutes.
• Thyroid testing and monitoring
• Urinalysis
• Cytology
• Microscopy
• Specific in – house tests able to detect for pancreatitis in both dogs and cats.

For any other diagnostic tests necessary we have a same day packaging and supply policy of any samples requiring referral to our external lab offering a seven working day turn around.