wildlife surgery
unique patients
Wildlife surgery patients, even if similar anatomically to humans or domestic animals pose particular challenges. They cannot be rested after opertions, hide symptoms, won’t allow checks without anaesthesia, and surgical results need to be near perfect or animals won’t be able to cope and survive in the wild. Surgery in these patients is higher risk, and needs careful consideration.
Keyhole Surgery
Minimally invasive surgery can be perfromed through wounds as small as 3mm, the same size as a microchip needle, with low risks of wound infection, and quick recovery. Patients like seals and beaver can even return to water almost immediately.
Orthopaedic surgery
Repairing broken bones is challenging, as wild animals will use them immediately after surgery. Special techniques and implants are needed, for monkeys hanging from a broken arm after surgery, or an elephant weighing several tons.
Heart and lung surgery
These patients won't tolerate lying in a hospital bed after an operation with draining tubes. Not only is keyhole surgery essential, but also unique and meticulous techniques vital for a patient to simply survive after this type of surgery.
Brain surgery
Performing the world's first brain surgery in a bear, in the jungle in Laos, when even the equipment and expertese needed for the operation in human was not even possible in the country, needed creative solutions
Read the scientific reports
World’s first keyhole gallbladder surgery in moonbears rescued from illegal bile farms in Vietnam.
Worlds first keyhole appendix removal in a wild great ape, an orangutan in Borneo
World’s first locking plate bone fracture repair in a chimpanzee in Sierra Leone
World’s first brain surgery in a bear in Laos