Video: How to Use a Spay Hook in Surgery

This instructional video shows how to use a spay hook to locate the uterus in a spay surgery.

Also included are troubleshooting tips for its usage.

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Topics: Spay/Neuter , Surgery

Type: How-Tos

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Guiding Dogs Through Spay/Neuter Intake and Examination

This video series will show you how to safely and comfortably handle, approach, and guide dogs through spay/neuter procedures including approach, determining alteration status, and intake.

How-Tos

Spay/Neuter Surgery Video: Open Gloving Technique

Sanitation in a spay/neuter clinic is particularly vital, and it all starts with a proper gloving technique. In this video, ASPCA Spay/Neuter Alliance staff gives a step-by-step review of the one way to ensure a sterile surgery environment.

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Video: How to Perform the Strangle Knot (Modified Miller's Knot) in Spay/Neuter Surgery

Watch these instructional videos to learn the pedicle tie and strangle knot during feline spay surgeries.

Surgeon obtaining suture ready for spay/neuter surgery

How-Tos

Video: Obtaining Suture & Threading Needle in Spay/Neuter Surgery

This video shows step by step how to maintain sterility when obtaining suture and threading a needle in spay/neuter surgery.

ASNA staff celebrate their 500,000th patient

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A Pup Named Pumpernickel is ASPCA Spay/Neuter Alliance’s 500,000th Patient

As of October 11, 2022, half a million animals have been spayed and neutered by the ASPCA Spay/Neuter Alliance (ASNA). The landmark patient was a puppy named Pumpernickel.

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Ten Million Cats and Dogs Sterilized Through ASPCA Spay/Neuter Alliance Mentorship

Find out more about the work of the ASPCA’s Spay/Neuter Alliance’s mentorship program and the 10 million cats and dogs who were spayed and neutered

Video: How to Use a Spay Hook in Surgery

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Guiding Dogs Through Spay/Neuter Intake and Examination

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Video: Obtaining Suture & Threading Needle in Spay/Neuter Surgery

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A Pup Named Pumpernickel is ASPCA Spay/Neuter Alliance’s 500,000th Patient

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