Katonah Bedford Veterinary Center - The largest and best-equipped emergency and veterinary specialty center and animal hospital in Westchester County

Below are the areas of treatment offered by our practice. You may click on any specialty name to see a list of therapies and procedures we offer in that area. Please call or write to learn more, or to inquire about treatment not listed.

CANINE REPRODUCTION · DERMATOLOGY · EMERGENCY & CRITICAL CARE · INTEGRATIVE & REHABILITATIVE
INTERNAL MEDICINE · ONCOLOGY · OPHTHALMOLOGY · SURGERY

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EMERGENCY & CRITICAL CARE

Katonah-Bedford Veterinary Center is a 24-hour 365-day a year emergency referral center equipped with a staff of highly trained veterinarians and a dedicated nursing staff capable of providing emergency and critical care support. We provide after-hours, weekend and holiday emergency services when your practice is not available. Emergencies can be a stressful time for both your clients and their pets. We have an excellent client care staff to help provide compassionate prompt service from the moment they arrive to the time their pet is discharged.

Monitoring:

Continuous blood pressure measurement
Arterial and venous blood gases
Pulse oximetry
End tidal CO2
Continuous EKG monitoring
Central venous pressure monitoring
Colloid osmotic pressure measurement

Therapeutics:

Transfusion medicine

Fresh frozen plasma
Packed red BLood cells
Oxyglobin
Human albumin

Oxygen therapy
Continuous nebulization
Advanced pain management
Partial parenteral nutrition and total parenteral nutrition.
Enteral Nutrition via feeding tubes
Closed and open chest CPCR

Referring Veterinarian
Communication

Interfacing with the general/referring practitioner to understand your needs and wishes for your patient in a addition to keeping your up-to-date on the status of each referred pet
Facilitating communication with the other specialty departments (surgery, internal medicine, oncology, ophthalmology, integrative medicine, etc.)
Consistent availability to accept critical referrals

Client Communication:

Compassionate supportive client care
24/7 availability to answer clients questions regarding the status of their in-patient pet
thorough discharge instructions
provide realistic expectations of the cost prognosis and at-home care of recovering critically-ill patients