«If 10
percent of these emergency surgeries had been performed electively, the cost difference would have been nearly $ 1 billion over 10 years,» said Adil Haider, MD, MPH, director of the Center for Surgery and Public Health at Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) and lead author of the paper.
As literately and, in two exquisitely suspenseful
accounts of emergency surgery, even more dramatically, he now tells the stories of our past and present knowledge of and notions about the stomach, the liver, the spleen, the heart, and the uterus.
Animals with serious medical conditions as a result of illness, accidental injury, neglect, or abuse make their way into the Animal Rescue League of Boston (ARL) every single day with no one to cover the hefty
expense of emergency surgery, treatment, or rehabilitation.
But there was one hitch: there was no way to quickly restore normal clotting for patients in
need of emergency surgery or to stop a major bleeding episode, leading many doctors to hold off on prescribing the drugs.
In addition to saving money on the
cost of an emergency surgery to correct a GDV, you could also be saving your dog's life since, even if you have the money to do surgery, if it is not caught in time there may be nothing that can be done to save your dog.