THE DAILY ROUTINE

Surgery starts early and we are usually underway just after nine with the first round of ops. A vet and nurse are usually operating whilst the other two vets are downstairs consulting; the other nurses are feeding and making inpatients comfortable and keeping their kennels clean and hygienic... so even though we only have two consulting rooms there's still plenty for everyone to be doing.

ALL IN A DAY'S WORK
This is Scoobie. He has had an exploratory operation to see if we can find out why he has not been well. He is on a drip to supply him with fluids while he is not eating.	This is Bugs the rabbit. Bugs had a dental about three hours before this picture was taken. As you can see he is already hungry and looking for something to eat.	This is Cracker, the Jack Russell Terrier. Cracker has just given birth to 3 puppies but needed a caesarian section to help her deliver them all successfully

The normal practice would be to perform clean, elective procedures first as these are unlikely to contaminate the theatre with airborne particles which may be of infectious risk to other patients. So open abdominal surgery, for example or operations involving open joints or repairing fractures would be performed early in the day whilst procedures such as dentistry, draining of abscesses and so on would be left until later in the morning or carried out away from the main operating theatre.