Emergency and Critical Care

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Services

  • 24-hour emergency service
  • Supportive care and initial diagnostics for emergency patients
  • Critical care monitoring
  • Chest tube placement
  • Tracheostomy tube placement
  • Pericardiocentesis
  • Thoracocentesis
  • 24-hour ICU monitoring/hospitalization
  • Bloodwork including profile, CBC, partial coagulation panels, blood gas analysis, and cross matching
  • Radiographs
  • Emergency endoscopy for foreign body retrieval
  • Emergency advanced imaging procedures (fluoroscopy, ultrasound, computed tomography)
  • Emergency surgical procedures

Special Equipment:

  • Ventilator
  • Capnography
  • O2 cages
  • ECG/Blood pressure monitoring
  • Fuji Sonosite

Emergency Services is for emergencies only. Emergencies are defined as a medical incident or condition which, if not treated immediately, would result in long-lasting morbidity or mortality.

Please call before referring patients.

Contact Information

24 hours a day / 7 days a week

Phone: 612-626-VETS (8387)

Our Team

Emergency & Critical Care Specialists: 
Rosalind Chow, VMD, Dip. ACVECC
Steven Friedenberg, DVM, PhD, Dip. ACVECC
Jose Grenet, DVM
Tara Sime, DVM
Kelly Tart, DVM, Dip. ACVECC
Jeff Todd, DVM, Dip. ACVECC

Residents: 
Angela Harrington, DVM, (2019-2022)
Jessica Peck, DVM, (2020-2023)
Andrea Voss, DVM, (2020-2023)
Annalisa Judy, DVM (2021-2024)


24/7 Emergency-Critical Care: & Wards Supervisors:
Brenda Houle, CVT, VTS (ECC)
Janet Nelson, CVT
Sara Orlando, CVT

Technicians:
Ashley Gille, CVT
Heather Holmgren, CVT, VTS (ECC, CP-C/F)
Monique Leddy, CVY
Ellen Neubauer, CVT
Lily Gordon, CVT
Jorden Hegvik, CVT
Keenan Moore, CVT
Marnie Reese, CVT
Amy Eastman, CVT
 
VTAs
AnnMarie Macnamara
Ashley Sandberg
Shannen Lawrence
 
Faculty
Tasia Ludwik, DVM, DACVECC