Auburn houses critical care unit
Auburn University, Ala.-Critically ill pets in the Southeast may gain a second chance at life in the newly-launched Critical Care Program at Auburn University (AU).
Auburn University, Ala.-Critically ill pets in the Southeast maygain a second chance at life in the newly-launched Critical Care Programat Auburn University (AU).
The emergency veterinary program is one of five university programs nationwide.(Others are at Tufts University, Colorado State University, University ofCalifornia, Davis, University of Illinois and University of Pennsylvania.)
AU clinicians and technicians operate the intensive care unit 24 hoursa day. Specialists are available in internal and critical care medicine.
The college operates as a veterinary hospital for animal owners withina 30-mile radius. Beyond that radius, pet owners must have a referral froma general practitioner.
The AU Critical Care team is: Dr. Douglas Macintire, ACVIM, ACVECC, Dr.Ted Bellhorn, ACVIM, and Wohl, Small Animal Critical Care; and Mary Tefend,RVT, Hill's instructor in Veterinary Critical Care Nursing. (Tefend is beingsponsored by Hill's Pet Nutrition.)
For more information, call AU at (334) 844-4690.
Read the story by Senior Associate Editor Stephanie Davis in the Octoberissue of DVM Newsmagazine.
