North Dallas Veterinary Emergency & Specialty
Critical Care for Pets in Frisco, TX
We’re proud to offer critical care in addition to emergency care for pets in Frisco and surrounding North Dallas communities.
Our team is focused on providing a patient-first, client-centric experience for even the most complex, critical patients in the hospital. To achieve this, we use state-of-the-art equipment and techniques to provide the most up-to-date treatment modalities and focus on a cooperative team approach to specialty care.
Our Criticalist works carefully with our Emergency team and other specialty services to ensure that each patient receives a whole-systems approach to diagnostics and care.
What is Critical Care for Pets?
Critical Care involves the stabilization and management of patients with acute, complex, life-threatening, multi-systemic disease processes. By offering critical care at NDVESH, pets have a better chance of survival when facing these complex and life-threatening conditions.
Services
Artificial organ support (oxygen therapy, ventilator therapy, specialized fluid support)
Hemodialysis
Blood transfusion therapy
Arterial Blood Gas
Status Epilepticus Treatments
Vasopressor Therapy
Multimodal Analgesia
Polytrauma Management
Emergency Airway Management
Parenteral Nutrition
Continuous Chest Drainage
Critically Ill Patient Post-Op Management
Diagnostic Procedures
Diagnostic Imaging
Mechanical Ventilation
Treatment for Life-Threatening Toxicities
What is a Veterinary Criticalist?
A Veterinary Criticalist is a board-certified specialist in veterinary emergency and critical care. Our Criticalists have completed an intensive three-year residency training program certified by the American College of Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care (ACVECC).
Criticalists focus on providing intensive, short-term, life-saving care utilizing advanced diagnostics and all avenues of treatment to give an acutely, severely ill patient the best chance of survival.
Meet Our Criticalist
Sandy Young, DVM
Diplomate, American College of Veterinary Emergency & Critical Care
Sandy Young, DVM
Diplomate, American College of Veterinary Emergency & Critical Care
