Critical Care/ICU
When every second counts, our Critical Care team provides round-the-clock monitoring and advanced medical support. In our fully equipped ICU, your pet receives expert, compassionate care to stabilize, heal, and give them the best chance for recovery.
Critical Care/ICU at 1st Pet Vet
Critical illness of a pet can be an emotionally devastating experience. 1st Pet Veterinary Centers offers phone consultations and accepts referrals for case management of seriously ill or injured pets. The Critical Care Service is here to provide either primary case management or supervision and guidance in the evaluation, specialized monitoring, and intensive care of critically ill pets. Dr. Reniker acts as the patient’s advocate in identifying all reasonable diagnostic and treatment options, gaining an accurate prognosis, and in some cases, administering advanced life support. She will facilitate the decision-making process through coordination of the primary care veterinarian, emergency doctor, and other specialty doctor consultations.
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Here at 1st Pet, we use cutting-edge techniques for the diagnosis and treatment of life-threatening illnesses. We offer the following services:
- Advanced intravenous crystalloid, colloid, and electrolyte treatments
- Direct and indirect blood pressure monitoring
- Management of hypotension with vasopressor and inotropic drugs
- Multimodal analgesia (continuous rate infusions, epidural, and local/regional analgesia)
- An in-house blood bank for dogs and cats. Blood typing, cross-matching, and transfusion medicine
- Advanced monitoring techniques: telemetric ECG, pulse oximetry, capnography, blood pressure, central venous pressure assessment
- Therapeutic endoscopy (foreign body removal)
- Total and partial parenteral (intravenous) nutrition
- Feeding tube placement and creation of enteral nutritional plans
- ECG analysis and treatment of arrhythmias
- Emergency ultrasound
- Oxygen administration & respiratory therapy
- Mechanical ventilation
- In-house assessment of CBC, serum chemistries, electrolytes, lactate, blood gas analysis, urinalysis, preliminary urine cultures, coagulation panels
- Contrast enhanced digital radiography
- Neurologica CereTom 8 slice, high resolution digital CT (‘cat-scan’) machine available for advanced imaging. All CT scans are read by board certified veterinary radiology specialists.
- Diagnostic and therapeutic centesis, including pericardiocentesis
- CPR, defibrillation, and advanced post-resuscitation life support