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Animal Emergency & Specialty Hospital - Byron Center

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Referring Veterinarians

Staff with dog at Animal Emergency and Specialty Hospital of Grand Rapids

Collaborating To Provide Top-Notch Care

If you are a veterinarian seeking a specific service, feel free to call and ask about our tailored treatment plans. Our veterinarians also enjoy consulting with you on your difficult cases. We understand that you are busy with regular appointments while seeing emergency cases and are happy to help you in any way possible.

We Value Collaborating with You!

We are available 24 hours daily for an emergency case consultation. Let us know if your patient should be monitored overnight. We can work together to tailor a treatment plan specific to your patient's needs. We provide a free examination and consult for any patient transferred to us from your hospital. We can help if your patient needs:

  • 24-hour monitoring and nursing care

    • Oxygenated incubator for exotics & neonates

  • In-house laboratory diagnostics

    • Blood analysis (CBC, blood chemistry, blood gas analysis)

    • Blood typing, crossmatching

    • Urinalysis

    • Cytology

    • Clotting time analysis

    • Infectious disease tests (parvovirus, heartworm, giardia, feline leukemia virus, feline immunodeficiency virus)

    • Phenobarbital serum level

    • Bile acid analysis

  • Digital radiography

  • Ultrasonography

  • Transfusion therapy (whole blood, packed red blood cell, & plasma)

  • Oxygen therapy

  • General anesthesia and surgery

  • Wound repair

  • Gastrointestinal foreign body removal

  • Gastric dilatation and volvulus (GDV)

  • Cesarian section (C-section)

  • Pyometra surgery

  • Splenectomy

  • Intravenous fluid therapy

  • Isolation ward for treatment & containment of infectious disease

  • Chest tube placement

  • Fracture stabilization/splinting

  • Urethral catheterization

  • Pain management

  • Seizure management

  • Blood pressure monitoring

  • Intraocular pressure monitoring (Tonopet)

  • Advanced nutritional support (feeding tube placement & management)

  • Ultrasound-guided fluid removal

    • Abdominocentesis

    • Thoracocentesis

    • Pericardiocentesis

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