Critical Care
Our board-certified Critical Care Specialist and critical care service is dedicated to providing intensive care and monitoring for pets in critical conditions. We provide rapid diagnosis and treatment of a wide variety of clinical problems representing the most extreme and life-threatening conditions seen in veterinary medicine.
We provide critically ill patients intensive care by a coordinated team and a broad range of technological procedures and devices used in intensive care settings to monitor and provide life-support (i.e., oxygen supplementation, mechanical ventilation, hemodialysis, vasopressor support).
Veterinary ICU
ECoVets Veterinary Specialists and Emergency is the only veterinary ICU that can provide mechanical ventilation and renal replacement support (hemodialysis) in Northeast Florida.
The care of critically ill patient also raises many complicated ethical and social issues, and encompass end-of-life decisions, advance directives, estimating prognosis, and counseling of patients and their families.
We provide critical care in our intensive care unit to patients presented to the emergency service allowing continuity of care in the same hospital, as well as patients requiring post-operative care, and overnight care from other referring veterinary clinics and hospitals.
CPR
Cardiopulmonary arrest can also happen in veterinary patients and our team of emergency and critical care clinicians and nurses are ready to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) based on the latest RECOVER guidelines for CPR in small animals, as well as to provide the intensive care and monitor for patients that are resuscitated successfully.
Conditions commonly managed by the critical care service:
Congestive heart failure
Heart failure from congenital versus acquired heart conditions such as mitral valve disease, dilated cardiomyopathy, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.
Oxygen support
Flow-by, high-glow oxygen for patients in respiratory distress
Severe trauma and pain management
Severe trauma and pain management
Transfusion therapy
Management of anemia or coagulation abnormalities with transfusion therapy.
Immune medicated conditions
Management of immune mediated conditions (Hemolytic anemia, thrombocytopenia, meningoencephalitis)
Acute intoxications and envenomations
Treatment for acute intoxications and envenomations
Seizures, tremors and neurological emergencies
Treatment of seizures, tremors and neurological emergencies
Urinary tract obstruction and reproductive emergencies
Management of Urinary tract obstruction and reproductive emergencies
Renal failure
Diagnosis and management of renal failure
Acute hepatic disease and liver failure
Diagnosis and management of acute hepatic disease and liver failure
Acute and severe gastroenteritis
Diagnosis and management of acute and severe gastroenteritis
Collapse and severe debilitation
Diagnosis and management of collapse and severe debilitation
