How can a Critical Care Hospital be of assistance to other Veterinarians?
Many patients present to the general practicing veterinarian or emergency veterinarian with disease processes or traumatic injuries that may benefit from continuous monitoring, ongoing diagnostic procedures, and ongoing therapy. These patients may require 24-hour care and monitoring, blood and blood component transfusions, enteral and/or parenteral nutritional support, surgical intervention, post-surgical care, specialized anesthetic protocols for high-risk patients, or advanced diagnostic testing and therapies that may not be available in the general practice setting. Not all critical care patients are ill at the time of presentation to the general or emergency veterinarian. Exposure to certain toxic substances may not produce clinical signs for several hours to days after the exposure; the critical care specialist can treat the patient to prevent clinical consequences and/or monitor the patient for the earliest signs of toxicity and initiate therapy prior to the development of catast
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