Referral discipline

Emergency and critical care

Life-saving care, around the clock.

Two veterinary staff caring for a black Labrador on the treatment table in the ward

Why trust Vets Now referrals

24/7 support for urgent, intensive care and advice

Scotland's only provider of Therapeutic Plasma Exchange (TPE)

Expertise in trauma, toxin ingestion, sepsis, and respiratory emergencies

Advanced techniques, including high-flow oxygen and mechanical ventilation

Our services

Our ECC team at Vets Now Glasgow provides emergency intervention and intensive monitoring for critically ill pets. With extensive experience and access to advanced treatments, we are equipped to handle a wide range of life-threatening conditions, including trauma, coagulopathies, sepsis, respiratory distress, and gastrointestinal disease.

As Scotland’s only provider of Therapeutic Plasma Exchange (TPE), we can offer treatment for immune-mediated and toxin-related diseases that would otherwise be untreatable. Working collaboratively with other hospital departments, our ECC team ensures every patient receives comprehensive, round-the-clock care.

Our prices

Treatment

Package Price

Standard ECC Work-Up Package

£2,250

Advanced ECC Work-Up Package

£3,200

Standard ECC Work-Up Package

The standard ECC package allows us to quickly stabilise and investigate patients who present as emergencies or are critically unwell and includes specialist consultation, point of care ultrasound and emergency blood work a well as further imaging with the diagnostic specialist imaging service (abdominal ultrasound and thoracic radiographs).

Advanced ECC Work-Up Package

The advanced ECC package includes all that the standard package does but is tailored to actuely critical patients (for example septic peritonitis, severely anaemic or haemorrhaging dogs and cats) and also includes infectious disease testing, haemostasis assessment, advanced imaging (CT scan) and external laboratory tests.

Meet our ECC team

Neus Elias

Neus Elias

Specialist ECC Clinician

LVM CertAVP(ECC) DipECVECC MRCVS
RCVS and EBVS Specialist in Emergency and Critical Care, Advanced practitioner in Emergency and Critical Care

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Emma Donnelly

Emma Donnelly

Specialist ECC Clinician

BVMS BSc(Hons) DipECVECC MRCVS
RCVS and EBVS Specialist in Emergency and Critical care

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Carla Molina

Carla Molina

Specialist ECC Clinician

DipECVECC MRCVS
RCVS and EBVS Specialist in Emergency and Critical care

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Lara Brunori

Lara Brunori

Specialist ECC Clinician

DVM CertAVP(ECC) DipECVECC MRCVS
RCVS and EBVS Specialist in Emergency and Critical care

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Kara Altman

Kara Altman

ECC Resident

BVSc (Hons I) MANZCVS (ECC) MRCVS

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Tanvi Kamat

Tanvi Kamat

ECC Resident

BVM&S BSAVA PGCertSAECC MRCVS

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