Emergency and Critical Care
Open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, our Emergency Service is dedicated to delivering compassionate, high-quality care when your pet needs it most. Under the direction of our board-certified emergency and critical care specialists, our emergency team is equipped to rapidly assess and stabilize ill and injured patients. Our hospital is home to 15 veterinary specialties, allowing us to provide comprehensive support for you and your pet.
Services
- 24-hour emergency service
- Supportive care and initial diagnostics for emergency patients
- Critical care monitoring
- Chest tube placement
- Tracheostomy tube placement
- Pericardiocentesis
- Thoracocentesis
- 24-hour ICU monitoring/hospitalization
- Bloodwork including profile, CBC, partial coagulation panels, blood gas analysis, blood typing, and cross matching
- Radiographs
- Emergency endoscopy for foreign body retrieval
- Emergency advanced imaging procedures (fluoroscopy, computed tomography, magnetic resonance imaging)
- Emergency surgical procedures
Special equipment
- Ventilator
- Capnography
- O2 cages
- ECG/Blood pressure monitoring
- Fuji Sonosite
Team
Residents
Gillian Lawrence, DVM
Micaela Planas Risi, DVM
Emma Steinmetz, DVM
Brianna Ohm, DVM
Dominique Dominguez, DVM
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