When your pet is facing a life-threatening illness or injury, you need a team with the expertise, technology, and urgency to act when every second counts.
At Swansboro Animal Hospital Emergency & Trauma Center, our critical care vet in Swansboro provides intensive monitoring, rapid diagnostics, and advanced treatment for pets experiencing severe or rapidly progressing medical emergencies.
If your pet needs emergency or critical care, call us immediately!
Our Critical Care team is equipped to manage the most serious and complex conditions affecting multiple body systems. We provide advanced care for:
With continuous monitoring, advanced imaging, and life-supportive therapies, we ensure your pet receives the highest level of care during critical moments.
Our team of critical care vets in Swansboro is committed to providing clear communication, rapid response, and exceptional medical care when your pet needs it most.
Our Critical Care services support pets from Swansboro, Cape Carteret, Cedar Point, Hubert, Emerald Isle, New Bern, Holly Ridge, Jacksonville, and Wilmington, NC.
We are honored to have Dr. Christina Whitley, a board-certified Veterinary Criticalist, leading our Critical Care service and serving as Medical Director.
Dr. Whitley earned her Doctor of Veterinary Medicine from North Carolina State University in 2014. She completed both her small animal rotating internship and her emergency and critical care residency at BluePearl Georgia in Atlanta. Between internship and residency, she practiced emergency medicine in Wisconsin while her husband completed his Internal Medicine residency.
If your pet has a chronic condition requiring advanced monitoring or you’ve been referred to us by your primary veterinarian for ongoing hospitalization of a critical condition, we’re here to help. Call our critical care vets in Swansboro.