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Sunrise Pet Clinic voluntarily sought accreditation by the American Animal Hospital Association (AAHA). More About Our Accreditation. We are members of the American Holistic Veterinary Medical Association. Our professional healthcare team pledges to provide:
Progressive Medicine & Compassionate Care Progressive Medicine & Compassionate Care We offer a wide spectrum of veterinary medical services and preventive care. Basic veterinary care starts with a comprehensive physical exam. This exam is particularly important before administering vaccinations. Vaccines help boost one's immune system to protect against serious disease. Although most often beneficial, vaccines are not benign. It is ill advised to administer a vaccination to a sick pet. Sometimes the only indication a pet is ill may be a fever. We are often able to pick up sub-clinical problems during an exam, allowing early treatment of the problem. 
Return to top Sunrise Pet Clinic offers in-hospital testing. This enables us to obtain immediate results for your pet when needed. However, many important blood tests require us to send them out to a diagnostic laboratory. These results are faxed to us with a rapid turnaround time. Return to topOn the day of your pet's procedure the doctor performs a thorough physical to determine if there have been any changes in his/her condition. Since we have a laboratory in our facility we do blood tests prior to the administration of the anesthetic. This requires us to take a small amount of blood from your pet. These blood tests provide the doctor with information about your pet's internal health. The tests evaluate the liver and kidneys, two systems that help metabolize the anesthetics. If your pet has any heart disease we may do radiographs of their chest and an EKG. These tests help us evaluate the heart and allow us to alter the anesthetic protocol as needed. Anesthetic monitoring of each patient is done by one of our Certified Veterinary Technicians with the proper monitoring equipment. We use a respiratory monitor, blood pressure monitor, pulse oximetry, and/or a capnograph. These noninvasive monitors allow us to evaluate changes in the patient and modify the anesthetic protocol as required. With the use of modern anesthetics and intravenous fluids that help support the vascular system and assist the kidneys, most pets recover adequately to return home the same day. As with many areas of veterinary medicine anesthesia is a specialty. After earning their doctorate in veterinary medicine, veterinarians who elect to specialize in anesthesia can go on to further studies in this area. Although all veterinarians learn anesthesia, specialists have advanced training for cases that pose particular concerns. We are fortunate to have a board-certified veterinary anesthesiologist in Tucson, Dr. Victoria Lukasik. Dr. Lukasik often provides such services when we do procedures on complex cases. Return to topSunrise Pet Clinic provides professional dental treatment for your pet. These services include ultrasonic and hand scaling. This cleans and removes tartar and plaque from the teeth and under the gum. Once this is completed the individual teeth are evaluated for pockets, enamel wear, and infection. If problems are discovered we can more fully evaluate the problem tooth with an X-ray. Having a dental x-ray unit greatly enhances our ability to evaluate your pet's teeth, since 66% of each tooth is made up of root, hidden by the jaw bone. Only teeth that are not savable are extracted. Leaving an abscessed tooth may deteriorate the health of the tooth on either side of the infected tooth. Infected teeth are also painful and allow infection to spread via the blood stream to other parts of the body. A high-speed polishing is performed to return the enamel to a smooth surface; smooth enamel is less conducive to accumulating plaque. Lastly, a fluoride treatment is performed to strengthen and coat the teeth and gums. Since regular dental home care (brushing the teeth) is the basis for good oral hygiene, our staff can assist you in how to make brushing your pet's teeth fun. This is most readily accepted by the neophyte, but it is "never to late to start." 
This diagnostic tool allows our doctors to see the "inner workings" of your pet in a noninvasive manner. This is a crucial tool for many different ailments and illnesses. Return to topMost of the patients who arrive for holistic treatment come to us with chronic conditions. Many clients have been dealing with their pets' problem(s) for months to years and understandably are ready for a solution and resolution of the condition. Clients have been trained to expect symptoms to disappear miraculously when a conventional pharmaceutical drug is given (such as taking an aspirin for a headache or an antihistamine for allergy congestion), and when these have failed; they are looking for an herb, supplement, or acupuncture to remove the symptoms in short order. We offer many prescription diets specifically formulated for various medical conditions. Nutrition is the basis of your pet's health. Many medical conditions such as heart, liver, and kidney disease as well as allergies, require specific changes in one's diet. We also have recipes for specific diets should you decide to make a home-cooked diet for your pet. At Sunrise Pet Clinic we feel behavior is an important part of having a healthy and enjoyable pet. Your pet's adult behavior is greatly affected by experiences he or she has as a young animal. To enhance their development we offer classes for the 8 to 16 week-old puppies. These classes are designed to expose your pet to numerous other animals, people and situations. Often when an adult animal acts afraid in situations or with people, it is due to a lack of exposure as a youngster. Although Sunrise Pet Clinic cannot provide boarding facilities for your pets, we can assist you in choosing a safe place for your pet to stay when you are away. We have personally visited numerous local boarding facilities and can recomment a number of facilities for your convenience. Give us a call at 299-5044 and we will be happy to mail or fax you a list.
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About Sunrise Pet Clinic
Although holistic medicine does use herbs, nutrition, acupuncture and many other modalities to treat disease, OUR AIM IS NOT TO TREAT THE SYMPTOMS PER SE, BUT TO ADDRESS THE TRUE CAUSE OF THE ILLNESS. If the causes can be eliminated, the symptoms will disappear! Unfortunately, it takes months to eliminate chronic infections, toxicities, active scars and allergies, which are some of the most common causes of chronic illness in our patients. 
