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: 
Samantha Bilko, DVM, (2018-2021)
Tasia Ludwik, DVM, (2018-2021)
Angela Harrington, DVM, (2019-2022)
Jessica Peck, DVM, (2020-2023)
Andrea Voss, DVM, (2020-2023)


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

Technicians:
Kelsey Brown, CVT
Ashley Gille, CVT
Heather Holmgren, CVT, VTS (ECC, CP-C/F)
Sophia LeClair, CVT
Sarah Lemm, CVT
Monique Rambo, CVT
Ellen Skala, CVT
Rachel Woodworth, CVT
Joelle Johnson-Krueger, CVT
Catie Krohnfeldt, CVT
 
ECC Float:
Amy Eastman, CVT
Heather Lavely, CVT
Jennifer Glover, CVT