Infectious disease control in spay-neuter facilities
Authors: White, S. and Isaza, N.
Pages: 89-101
DOI: 10.1002/9781119646006.ch5
Abstract:This chapter provides an overview of best practices regarding sanitation, hygiene in animal handling, vaccination, and prevention of infectious disease outbreaks in a spay-neuter clinic setting. It discusses the routine use of antibiotics for animals undergoing elective spay-neuter procedures. Animal housing protocols, animal handling, and employee hygiene are of particular concern in the prevention of infectious disease in high-quality high-volume spay-neuter clinic settings. Patients should be watched for signs of infectious disease from arrival until discharge. Sanitation is an important tool for prevention of the spread of infectious diseases in veterinary hospitals. Antibiotics should be reserved for those patients in whom a known break in asepsis has occurred, the surgical procedure is prolonged, the animal has significant skin disease or other infection that may result in contamination during surgery, or the animal has a traumatic infected wound or other condition such as pyometra that could benefit from a prescribed course of antibiotics.
Source: Scopus