Our staff includes emergency and critical care specialists, licensed veterinarians, and veterinary technicians ready to help you with your pet emergency. Emergency Care: The Pet Emergency Room is open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.The Pet Emergency Room is an integral part of the Southeast Veterinary Referral Center (SVRC) providing the essential 24/7 critical care for the hospitalized patients. Additional surgeons and veterinary specialists are on call should the need arise. Our blood bank program guarantees that our canine and feline patients have access to a safe and adequate blood supply. Our in-house laboratory, radiology and ultrasound capabilities enable us to get crucial diagnostic information very quickly. ServicesĮmergency care involves stabilizing the patient and may include placing intravenous catheters, administering IV fluids, pain medications, oxygen therapy and sometimes blood or plasma transfusions. A veterinary technician will take a brief history and the patient’s vital signs prior to the emergency doctor examining the patient.

During extremely busy periods, more stable patients may need to wait while these critical cases are stabilized. We look forward to serving you and your clients.Īs in human emergency rooms, The Pet Emergency Room triages the most acute, life-threatening cases first.

Our promise is to treat pets as if they were our own and our clients as if they were family and friends. We practice collaborative medicine, bringing the expertise and skills of multiple specialties together to meet the needs of our patients. Our ER capabilities include emergency surgery, ventilator support, blood pressure, ECG and oxygenation monitoring, blood and blood product transfusions and the ability to run a variety of blood work in house. Our team of emergency doctors, experienced technician staff, and a dedicated group of veterinary assistants are all committed to helping people respectfully, compassionately, and enthusiastically. The Pet Emergency Room at SVRC is dedicated to delivering the highest quality of medical care for the benefit of our patients, their families, and local primary care veterinarians 24-hours a day.

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