24 Hour Emergency Animal Care From Your WECARE Veterinarian
Waldorf Emergency Care offers 24-hour emergency animal care for a wide variety of animals, including dogs, cats, and pocket pets. Whether your pet has been poisoned, struck by a vehicle or is in an urgent state of need for urgent medical services due to another reason, we focus on stabilizing and treating sick and injured animals.
Our Emergency Veterinarians:
Internal Medicine
Our Internal Specialist is available by appointment or on an emergency basis. Their days in hospital are Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays and in addition, they can be called in on an emergency basis.
Internal Medicine cases include:
- Endocrinology – Diabetes mellitus, Cushings
- Gastroenterology – Vomiting and Diarrhea
- Kidney Disease – Urology
- Respiratory Diseases
- Immune mediated diseases
- Other chronic diseases
- Oncology diagnostics and chemotherapy
Diagnostics may include:
- Ultrasound of the abdomen, thorax, or mass
- Endoscopy of the gastrointestinal tract or respiratory tract
- Bone marrow biopsy, Tru-cut liver biopsy, other biopsies
- Abdominocentesis, Thoracocentesis, Pericardiocentesis, Arthrocentesis
Ultrasound:
Is one of our most often used diagnostic tools, By using sound waves, we are able to visualize internal organs in great detail, allowing diagnosis of many diseases. It may be used to identify foreign bodies in the intestines. It is often integral in diagnosis liver, splenic, renal, urinary, and intestinal diseases. Ultrasound is also used to assist in biopsies.
Endoscopy:
We routinely use endoscopy to visualize the gastrointestinal and respiratory systems. Common procedures include upper GI studies for vomiting, diarrhea. Colonoscopy is used for chronic diarrhea. Rhinoscopy (nose) and bronchoscopy (lungs) allows visualization of the air ways including the trachea and lungs with lavage.