Veterinary Surgery

Veterinary surgery is a branch of veterinary medicine. Veterinary surgery is used to diagnose and treat livestock diseases (including injuries and deformities) based on surgical methods, combined with drugs and physical therapy, and occupies an important position in veterinary clinical work. It involves the causes, clinical manifestations, pathogenesis, prevention, and treatment of diseases. It also covers surgical infections; trauma, non-open soft tissue injuries (contusions); ulcers and fistulas; traumatic shock; and diseases of various tissues, such as bones, joints, muscles, tendons and sheaths, nerves, bursae, and skin (limb disease).

The continuous development of veterinary science makes veterinary surgery continue to differentiate. Veterinary obstetrics has been separated from surgery as an independent discipline. Some increasingly mature disciplines, such as veterinary anesthesia, have also become specialized disciplines in the United States, Canada, and other countries during the 1970s. It can be expected that the further development of veterinary surgery will bring out more new disciplines.

The section includes studies on the etiology, symptoms, diagnosis, prognosis, treatment, and prevention of different diseases in various parts of the carcass, such as the head, neck, thorax, abdomen, dorsal lumbar, tail and limbs, as well as the urinary and reproductive systems.

Topics include, but are not limited to:

• Dental surgery
• General surgery
• Orthopedic surgery
• Urology
• Thoracic surgery
• Plastic surgery
• Surgical oncology
• Ophthalmology
• Cardiac surgery
• Surgical anesthesia
• Pain management