Introducing Safe Pet Anesthesia

During an interview with dvm360, Gianluca Bini, DVM, MRCVS, DACVAA, explains what Safe Pet Anesthesia is, and how it is providing support to veterinary professionals. With this company, veterinary teams can gain telehealth access to anesthesia consultants to help resolve issues in real time, making anesthesia an easier process for professionals, and a safer one for pets.

Below is a partial transcript

Gianluca Bini, DVM, MRCVS, DACVAA: It's an interesting, like, new concept, really. Most people don’t know that something like this exists. So what we do is we offer anesthesia teleconsulting on video call the whole time... We support the general practitioners that so far have never had access to an anesthesiologist being there with them. And we think that this has been kind of unfair on them, and it’s really unfair to the majority of patients that go under anesthesia. The majority of them do go under anesthesia in a general practice setting, they don’t go under anesthesia in academia or in a referral setting. But unfortunately, there’s only a few hundred of us in the US, and you can find us in academia or in very few referral places. Actually, the majority of referrals don’t have an anesthesiologist nowadays. And so that cuts off a bunch of patients from having access to an anesthesiologist.

And so what we do is, you know, we check with the clinic first…we figure out what monitoring they have, what drugs they have. We don’t really revolutionize what they do, we want to work with what [they] have, as long as we think it’s safe for the patient. And then from there on, they can just schedule us for an anesthetic event. They upload the medical record in our system, and then we just show up on the video call, and as long as they have a phone, an iPad, or a laptop, and a WIFI, that’s all they need—so a device with a camera and WIFI—and we can just jump on the call and stay there the whole time, from start to finish.