Surgery & sedation consent

This is the document you will be asked to sign before an anaesthetic procedure. Read it here, at your own pace. You do not sign it on this page — we email a signing link to the address on your record, or you sign it in person at drop-off.

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How signing works

Two ways, one document

Whichever you choose, it is the same paper and a copy lands in your pet’s record.

At home

A signing link, emailed to you

The link goes to the address already on your record and works once. That is what ties the signature to you, rather than to a name typed by whoever happened to open a public web page.

Make sure we have your email

At drop-off

On a tablet, here

If you would rather read it with someone who can answer questions, sign it at the front desk on the morning of the procedure. Allow a few extra minutes.

Ask us about it

Why not a sign-here box on this page: a public form can be filled in by anyone, for any animal, under any name. Twenty-two required acknowledgments signed by an unidentified person is a weaker record than no signature at all, because it looks like one. The emailed link fixes the identity, which is the part that was actually missing.

What you are agreeing to

Each item below is one of the acknowledgments on the consent document. They are set out here in full so that you can read them before the morning of the procedure, not while standing at a counter with a carrier in your hand.

TK The clause text below is what the 26 August content export captured from the two live forms; several clauses were truncated by the export and are shown truncated, marked with an ellipsis. Nothing has been paraphrased into new legal wording. Before launch, drop the verbatim text of every clause in from the signed source document — this file is the only place it needs to change.

Authorizing the procedure

I, the undersigned owner or agent … authorize the staff …
No food after 10 PM the night before

I am not to feed my pet after 10pm …
Anesthetic and surgical risk

I understand that some risks always exist with anesthesia and/or surgery …
Sedation risk

I understand that some risks always exist with sedation …
Emergency treatment, and that you are over 18

I am over 18 and understand that the attending veterinarian will make every effort …
The written estimate

I have been provided an estimate and approved the estimated cost
Responsibility — surgical

While I accept that all procedures will be performed …
Responsibility — sedation and recovery

While I accept that all procedures will be performed …
Costs after the procedure

I assume full responsibility for any additional expenses incurred after the surgical procedure is performed, such as follow up radiographs, re-check physical exams and additional surgery due to post-op complications

TK Unresolved — for counsel. This clause is on the Animal Hospital at Grayhawk document and is not on the Desert Ridge Animal Hospital document. It is shown here because deleting a clause from one hospital’s paper, or adding one to the other’s, is a decision for counsel — not for a website rebuild. Its presence on this page is not that decision.
After normal business hours

… the hospital is not staffed after normal business hours

TK Unresolved — for counsel. This disclaimer is on the Animal Hospital at Grayhawk document and is not on the Desert Ridge Animal Hospital document. Same reasoning as the clause above: both hospitals are shown the union of the two papers until counsel rules on which set is correct. It is also a statement of fact about staffing that each hospital has to be able to stand behind.

Before the day

No food after 10 PM the night before. Water is fine overnight unless we have told you otherwise.
Tell us about every medication and supplement, including the ones that seem too minor to mention.
Give us a number you will actually answer during the procedure. We call if anything changes.
You will have a written estimate before anything begins. If the plan changes, we call you first.

Questions before you sign

Call Animal Hospital at Grayhawk on 480-585-3512 and ask for the surgery team. Nobody here would rather you signed something you had questions about.

Before the procedure

The details we need in advance

This is not the consent form and nothing here is a signature. It is the practical information the surgery team wants in front of them the day before — so that the only thing left on the morning is the document above.

You and your pet

First name *

Last name *

Email *

The signing link goes here, so it has to be the address on your record.

Pet’s name *

Reaching you on the day

Phone we can reach you on during the procedure *

A second number (optional)

Afterwards, would you rather we texted or called? *

Text Call

The procedure

Procedure(s) scheduled, as your veterinarian described them *

TK The current forms also carry a procedure checkbox group and a “Please select one” radio group, and the two hospitals disagree about them — the first is a checkbox group at Grayhawk and a radio group at Desert Ridge. The export did not capture either option list, so neither group is rendered here rather than guessed at. Send the option lists and both groups go in.

Does your pet have a microchip? *

Yes No Not sure Please place one

Medications and anything else

Any medications or supplements in the past week? *

Yes No

If yes — what, and when was the last dose? (optional)

Other concerns, allergies or procedures (optional)

Where the signature goes

Nothing on this page is a signature, and sending this form does not consent to anything. When the procedure is scheduled we email a single-use signing link to the address on your record — that link, opened from your inbox, is what ties the signature to you. If you would rather sign in person, tell us and we will have it ready at drop-off.

We use this to prepare for your pet’s procedure. We do not sell it. What we collect and who receives it.

Rather talk it through

480-585-3512

Ask for the surgery team.

On the morning

No food after 10 PM the night before
Bring the medications, in their containers
Allow a few minutes at drop-off

What surgery here looks like

Monitoring, pain control and what we do differently →

Questions about a scheduled procedure

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