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Critical Care
If your pet requires intensive care for a serious illness or injury, your family veterinarian may recommend the Critical Care services at Four Seasons Animal Hospital. Our service includes two board-certified critical care doctors, experienced emergency/critical care clinicians, and a group of highly trained nurses.  The critical care service provides specialized care for the sickest patients to give them the best chance for recovery.

The intensive care unit is designed to provide a quiet area for very ill patients that need the highest level of technological monitoring and comprehensive nursing care. Because the ICU environment can be very unfamiliar and overwhelming for families, we encourage you to visit your pet, and we have an ICU nurse available for your inquiries about your pet at any time.

Our goal is to give your pet the best care possible, to help you understand your pet’s condition, to provide informative and caring support, and to work with your family veterinarian to ensure the best follow-up care once your pet is able to go home.

Critical Care Services

Emergency and critical care (24 hour services)
Continuous ECG monitoring
Blood pressure monitoring: indirect and direct blood pressure, central venous pressure
Pulse oximeter monitoring
End tidal CO2 monitoring
Core and peripheral body temperature monitoring
Intensive fluid therapy management: electrolyte abnormalities, constant rate infusions
Blood, blood component, and plasma transfusion therapy
Typing and cross-matching blood products
Placement of central intravenous catheters, arterial lines
Oxygen therapy: blood gas monitoring, supplemental oxygen
Mechanical ventilation
Continuous renal replacement therapy
Cerebrospinal fluid collection and analysis
Bone marrow aspiration and bone biopsy
Heart pacemaker implantation
CT and ultrasound-guided fine needle aspiration
Critical care sedation and anesthesia
Intensive pain management
Nutritional management: enteral (feeding tubes), and parenteral (IV nutrition)
Emergency surgery
Emergency respiratory or urethral stent placement

For more information about veterinary emergency and critical care, ask your veterinarian or visit this site:

American College of Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care