What is an Emergency?

Medical conditions that should be referred to an emergency clinic if we are unable to treat includes (other situations may apply):

• Pet is un-responsive
• Trauma: Hit by car, crush injuries, degloving injuries, head trauma, burns, serious wounds from
• altercations with other animals
• Respiratory distress
• Heart failure, liver failure, kidney failure
• Fluid build-up in chest, abdomen, or around heart
• Poisoning (ingestion of toxic substances)
• Envenomation (snake bite, spider bite, bee and/or wasp stings)
• Seizures
• Immune mediated diseases
• Bleeding – Clotting disorders
• Bloat / foreign body ingestion
• Sepsis (severe infection)
• Unable to urinate – difficulty urinating / crying out while urinating
• Dehydration – severe diarrhea / vomiting
• Heat exhaustion
• Chemotherapy reactions

Emergency center treatments may include: Emergency surgery, IV fluid therapy, pain management, blood transfusion, mechanical ventilation (respirators) or administration of oxygen, CPR and post-resuscitation life support, blood work – blood gas analysis, blood pressure monitoring and control, wound management, advanced observation and nursing care.