Emergency Critical Care

Doctors:

Metropolitan Veterinary Referral Services maintains a fully staffed emergency, trauma and critical care facility that accepts both walk-in and referral emergencies. We specialize in emergency medical and surgical care of small animals, especially patients requiring intensive and long-term critical care management. Our hospital meets or exceeds all standards recommended by the Veterinary Emergency Critical Care Society. Our emergency doctors have the full consultation support of board certified specialists.

Emergency and Critical Care services offered at MVRS include:

• 24 hour around the clock monitoring of critically ill patients
• Highly trained critical care nursing staff
• Individualized patient care
• Canine and feline blood bank available
• Complete and immediate medical imaging
  • Digital X-ray
  • Fluoroscopy
  • abdominal and special region ultrasound
  • echocardiography
• Complete laboratory diagnostics with immediate test results
  • blood chemistry and electrolyte analysis
  • complete blood count
  • blood gas analysis
  • electrolytes
• Clotting profiles - ACT, PT, PTT
• Complete in-hospital pharmacy with specialized inventory
• Advanced patient monitoring techniques for critical care and surgery
  • Pulse oximetry and capnography
  • Ventilation support
  • Oxygen therapy - intranasal and oxygen chamber delivery
  • Blood pressure monitoring
  • Nebulization therapy
  • Complete intravenous nutritional therapy
    • TPN – Total Parenteral Nutrition
    • PPN – Partial Parenteral Nutrition
    • Nasogastric Feeding

• Transfusion Medicine
• Whole blood transfusion
• packed red blood cells transfusions
• plasma transfusion therapy
• Central venous pressure monitoring
• Continuous electrocardiogram (EKG) monitoring
• Continuous rate infusions
• Endoscopic placement of Percutaneous gastrotomy tubes
• Nasoesophageal tube placement
• Pain management