Large Animal Emergency Medicine

Joanne Hardy, DVM, PhD, Diplomate, ACVS, ACVECC, Clinical Associate Professor

The Texas A&M University Large Animal Emergency and Critical Care service offers 24-hour year-round examination and admission of critically ill Large Animals, with a special focus on horses. The service is overseen by Board Certified Specialists in Internal Medicine, Surgery and Critical Care. The Intensive Care Unit is staffed with Certified Veterinary technicians. The State-of-the-art ICU facility includes adult ICU stall, mare-foal units, foaling stalls, and a separate isolation facility for infectious diseases. The ICU is equipped with the latest technology and monitoring equipment including monitoring units, point-of-care blood analysis, ventilator, specialized fluid delivery devices. Access to a full clinical pathology laboratory is available 24 hours a day. Theriogenology (reproduction), anesthesia, and radiology services, overseen by Board Certified Faculty members, are also available on demand, and a fully staffed surgical team is available for emergency surgery.