There are very few ambulances and EMTs in animal health. That role is handed to veterinary teams for an animal that has been hurt in an automobile encounter.
Cassandra Gilday, DVM, and Adesola Odunayo, DVM, MS, DACVECC, provide an extensive decision tree resource for animal patients who have experienced vehicular trauma.
Source: Clinician’s Brief, March 2021. Link.
INSIGHTS: Animal health pros serving the industry and practices often ignore the resident knowledge veterinarians and veterinary nurses deploy in situation after a situation. Take a few minutes to study the decision tree to gain a deeper understanding of the problem-solving work that DVMs perform.