Westminster Veterinary Hospital - 24 Hour Emergency Trauma Center in Carroll County Maryland

Services

The Emergency/Trauma Center
Doctors at the center can handle ANY emergency and you can feel confident that your pet will be receiving the highest quality care available in the area. This is proven by the fact that over 80 Veterinarians and Veterinary Hospitals in Carroll and surrounding counties have referred patients to this facility for emergency and critical care services.The Emergency/Trauma Center is designed to complement the care provided by your regular veterinarian, offering emergency services and critical care during hours when your regular veterinarian may be unavailable. Their mission is to serve the area veterinarians and their clients on an emergency basis by providing care for critically ill or injured small animals. The Center also provides attention for problems that may not be life threatening, but are painful to your pet or that are of immediate concern to you.

Routine Medical and Surgical Appointments

Spaying and Neutering

Well Pet Check-Ups and Vaccinations
Dental Services
Acupuncture and Herbal Medicines

Home Again Microchips

Nutrition
Westminster Veterinary Hospital can also provide partial or total parental intravenous nutrition for patients that need this type of care. They find that many renal failure animals and chemotherapy patients benefit from this type of nutrition. Science Diet and Purina prescription diets are also available.

VetCentric™ On-Line Pharmacy
Prescriptions (Scripts) for your pet, delivered to your home.

Grooming Services
Next door to the hospital is Andie's Doggie Do's, a full service pet grooming facility. Hours are by appointment and can be made by calling Andrea Hockensmith at 410-848-9380.

Some of the equipment and procedures used in the Emergency/Trauma Center include:

Ultasound-with teletransmission capabilities to specialists

Ultrasounded guided biopsies with a gun-loaded biopsy instrument

X-Rays

Pulse Oximetry Full ECG monitoring and interpretation

Blood pressure measurement

Full line of blood tests: CBC, chemistries, electrolytes, ACT and Pivka testing to assess coagulation all done at their in-house laboratory

In-house thyroid and cortisol testing

Blood Bank

Blood transfusion equipment

IV fluid equipment

Standard Veterinary procedures are also done at the hospital during daytime hours