Pets, just like people, can get themselves into life threatening situations that may require immediate medical attention. These events usually seem to occur at odd hours when your regular veterinarian’s office is closed. If your pet suffers a serious injury of a life threatening event, stay calm, but try to get your pet to a veterinarian as soon as possible. When should I worry? There are certain clinical signs your pet may exhibit that are emergency situations and require immediate attention. Emergency situations may include any of the following:

• The inability to urinate
• The inability to walk or stand
• Sudden pain
• Respiratory distress
• Severe vomiting or bloody diarrhea
• Loss of consciousness
• Severe blood loss
• Trauma such as being hit by a car, or trauma to the eye or face
• Seizures
• Labor that is not progressing
• Snake bites
• Choking
• Toxin or foreign body ingestion
• Swollen abdomen

Our Facilities
The Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care Hospital is an afterhours (nights, weekends, and holidays) animal emergency facility associated with the Louisiana Veterinary Referral Center. The Emergency clinic’s normal business hours are 6pm-8am Monday-Friday, and 24 hours on the weekend and holidays.

Quality Care
The VECC is staffed during all business hours by doctors, nurses, and receptionists who are well prepared to triage and treat emergency cases. We are proud to have a team that is well trained in client communication and patient care. We have the highest quality diagnostic and treatment protocols established for the clinic, with the ability to perform many in house diagnostic tests at any hour of the day or night. We are fully backed by a team of specialists for those cases that require specialized care. Emergency cases may be treated as outpatients or in-hospital patients before being discharged back to the primary veterinarian’s care.

Please contact us at 985-626-4862 for more information.