The Companion Animal Emergency and Critical Care (ECC) Service at The Ohio State University Veterinary Hospital provides emergency and intensive care 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Drs. Amy Butler and Ed Cooper, both board-certified specialists in the American College of Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care, lead a team of specialized and highly skilled registered veterinary technicians, critical care residents, interns, and fourth-year veterinary students.

The critical care unit is equipped with state-of-the-art ventilators, oxygen cages, dialysis care, monitors for heart, lung, blood pressure, and vital signs, defibrillators and infusion pumps, which precisely administers fluids and medication. Real-time cameras monitor isolation cages and stalls for animals with potentially contagious disease. The equipment is expensive and charitable gifts often enable us to obtain the best medical equipment to benefit our patients as well as our patient care staff