PLEASE DO NOT USE THEM!!! I have 2 separate cases of Dr. neglect. The first case that I was forced to go to P.E.C. was on 1/7/09 with my boyfriends cat. He was having seizures and after having lengthy conversations with the vets and technicians my boyfriend and I decided that he wanted CPR done on the cat if needed but we wanted phone calls on any changes to the cats. If there were anymore seizures we were to be called and we would send poor Marco to heaven with love around him. After no phone calls all night we called the hospital and said he had another seizure but they had sedated him and he slept comfortably all night and we could go down there and pick him up. We immediately went down there. The Dr. came in about 15 minutes later to let us know that Marco had passed. When we said we wanted to see him they brought him in and he had rigor mortis. What this means is that Marco had passed even before we had called them and the doctors and techs had just assumed that he was sleeping. I am a trained veterinary technician and also worked in an emergency setting where I was alone without a dr. there almost every night. On a critical case such as Marco's he should have been checked every few minutes for heart rate and respiration rate at the VERY LEAST!!! Knowing that rigor mortis takes time to set in I know that Marco layed in that cage dead for hours without the 2 Doctors or any of the staff (at least 6 technicians) knowing he was gone.UNACCEPTABLE!!!!
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