Emergency & Critical Care Consults

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Real-Time Expert Help for Your Most Critical Cases

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Direct Access to Board-Certified Criticalists - When You Need It Most

When you're stabilizing a crashing patient, an unstable case, or a rapidly evolving emergency, you shouldn't have to make decisions alone.

With DVM STAT Emergency & Critical Care, you get on-demand access to board-certified Criticalists who walk you through case triage, stabilization, and advanced decision-making — all in real time.

From fluid resuscitation and ventilation strategies to transfusion plans, coagulopathy management, or step-by-step procedure guidance, our ECC consults are designed to take the pressure off and elevate patient care.

Call or submit a case — and get a consult right away.

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Immediate ECC Support - How It Works

Whether it’s 10 AM or 10 PM

  • Call us or submit a case through your DVM STAT portal

  • A board-certified Criticalist answers the call - really!

  • After your phone consult, you’ll receive a comprehensive written report summarizing clinical findings, recommendations, and next steps

This service is designed for real-time case management — not just consults, but collaboration.

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What Types of Cases Do We Help With?

Our Emergency & Critical Care service isn’t just for trauma or emergencies — our Criticalists regularly help with:

  • Sick or unstable internal medicine patients

  • Perioperative monitoring and complication management

  • Infectious, inflammatory, or immune-mediated diseases

  • Transfusion decisions and coagulation disorders

  • Respiratory distress or oxygenation support

  • Neurologic emergencies (e.g., seizures, coma, paralysis)

  • Electrolyte abnormalities, shock states, and more

    If you’re unsure what to do next — call us. We’re here to help.

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Need Help With a Procedure? We’re Hands-On (Even Remotely)

Our Criticalists can talk you through emergency procedures in real time - and yes, we’ve even guided them via video.

  • Urinary catheterization in blocked or unstable patients

  • Thoracocentesis, abdominocentesis, or pericardiocentesis

  • Central line placement and fluid resuscitation protocols

  • Transfusion product selection and dosing

  • Oxygen therapy methods and ventilator strategy

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Two Ways to Initiate an Emergency & Critical Care Consult

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Submit First. Save Time. Get More Out of Your Consult.

Preferred Method. Upload key records before the phone consult. Criticalist reviews data in real time.

Submit online:

  • Case history and clinical progression

  • Current medications and treatments

  • Lab results and monitoring data (ECG, BP, trends)

  • Imaging: POCUS, radiographs

  • Medical records — even if incomplete

✔️ Why submit first?
Your Criticalist has all the information upfront, so the conversation is more efficient and in-depth.


Most consults are completed in 20–30 minutes with fewer follow-up needs.

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Call-In. Criticalist Answers.

Call directly to speak with a Criticalist

Verbally relay:

  • Case name, signalment, hospital info

  • Case history, recent clinical changes

  • Lab work, ECGs, monitoring data

  • Relevant imaging findings

You’ll email supporting documents after the call for review and report completion.

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Let’s Make the Right Call — Together

Bottom Line:
Both methods work — but submitting first saves time, sharpens the consult, and lets us get right to what matters most: your patient.

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“DVM STAT Consulting has been such a valuable addition to our practice! As a multi specialty and 24hr ER hospital, we often get complex and critical cases coming in all hours of the day. To have a friendly Criticalist be only a phone call away, even in the dead of night, is invaluable…”

— Jessica, Medical Director

What to Expect from an ECC Report

Not Just a Call — A Complete Written Report

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A medical report on a dog’s health, including test results, current treatments, clinical assessment, and monitoring and therapeutic recommendations.
A detailed medical report or consultation document with recommendations, patient monitoring instructions, and doctor’s contact information.
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Ready to Get Started?

You're already doing everything you can for your patient. Let us help with the rest. Our board-certified Criticalists are here to guide you - STAT.

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