Animal Critical Care and Emergency Services has an experienced emergency veterinarian on premises, 24 hours per day, 7 days per week, 365 days a year. We are able to treat dogs, cats, ferrets, and pocket pets. Although we are not experts in birds or reptiles, we can provide supportive care after hours until your regular exotics veterinarian is open. Examples of emergency cases include toxicities, trauma, heatstroke, diabetic crises, or any time when you are concerned that your pet may be very sick.

Intensive Care Services Include:

Emergency surgical stabilization - ACCES provides surgical intervention for problems such as foreign body ingestion, gastric dilation and volvulus (GDV), and severe bite wounds.

In house laboratory services - ACCES can perform complete blood counts, blood chemistry analysis, blood electrolyte measurement, blood gas analysis, and coagulation testing in our hospital. ACCES also contracts with outside laboratories to provide further diagnostics such as urine toxin screens, cytology, and histopathology.

Blood and plasma transfusions - ACCES has blood products for dogs and cats in the hospital for transfusions. Transfusions may be necessary in cases of trauma, bleeding tumors, severe infections, or toxicities such as rat poison.

Life support ventilation - a life support ventilator is available for those cases in which an animal is having severe problems breathing that does not improve with oxygen alone. Animals with very severe lung bruising secondary to being hit by a car, animals with severe pneumonia, and animals recovering from spinal surgery who are temporarily paralyzed are some of the candidates for this intervention.

Intravenous nutrition - animals who won't or can't eat for many days may benefit from intravenous nutrition. Studies have shown that improvement from severe disease is quickened when nutrition is provided.

State of the art monitoring for critical patients - ACCES has the capability to continuously monitor blood pressure, oxygen saturation, end tidal CO2, ECG, and central venous pressure.

Peritoneal dialysis - when an animal's kidneys fail or when an animal is exposed to a severe kidney toxin, dialysis may be the only procedure that can save its life.