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Intensive Care Carnivore

Designed for birds of prey, ferrets, snakes, monitors, small skinks, frogs, some turtles, and some geckos

Product highlights:
  • Highly digestible nutrition for rapid energy and easy digestion
  • Flexible ways to feed, including loading fish for increased nutrition
  • High energy density allows for smaller volume per feed
  • High protein ratio specifically for carnivore
  • Lasts 6 months once opened when refrigerated
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The first
semi-elemental
diet designed for the critically ill carnivore

Developed by an expert panel including exotic animal veterinarians, emergency clinicians, and nutritionists

Intensive Care Carnivore is crafted for carnivores that are critically ill, have poor nutritional status, or recovering from surgery or illness. Can be fed as a sole diet or supplement. This specialized formula contains hydrolyzed macronutrients, prebiotics, stabilized vitamins, and chelated minerals for improved recovery.

Easy ways to feed

A flexible feeding system, EmerAid can be fed as a complete diet or supplement.

EmerAid powder allows for a variety of feeding strategies to ensure maximum nutrition is reached.

Topper
Gravy
Slurry
Bites
Syringe/Tube
How to administer EmerAid IC Carnivore

Benefits

  • Provides life-saving, semi-elemental nutrition for exotic animals during the critical first week of hospitalization
  • Flexible ways to feed and high energy density ensure a positive energy balance is reached 
  • Can be loaded within prey food to increase calories
  • Boosts the immune system with arginine and glutamine 
  • Rapid energy provided by hydrolyzed carbohydrates and fats
  • Smooth texture that passes through a 5Fr without clogging
  • High kcal/ml minimizes feeding time and frequency, reducing stress in debilitated animals
  • Promotes lean body mass gain and wound healing using purified amino acids and hydrolyzed proteins
  • Highly digestible blend of fats and simple carbohydrates for energy
  • Balanced omega 3:6 polyunsaturated fatty acids.
EmerAid® IC Carnivore is a therapeutic diet designed to be used only under the supervision of a licensed veterinarian or wildlife rehabilitator.

Indications

Critically ill or debilitated* Anorexia Cachexia Compromised GI tract Nutritional deficiencies Palliative care

* i.e., Ferrets with kidney disease or lymphoma; reptiles with parasitic infection; reptiles with GIT stasis post brumation

Ingredients: Hydrolyzed Soy Protein, Corn Oil, Canola Oil, Glucose Syrup Solids, Cellulose, Defatted Wheat Germ, Dicalcium Phosphate, L-Glutamine, Ground Limestone, Ground Rice, Potassium Chloride, DL-Methionine, Magnesium Sulfate, Citric Acid, L-Cysteine, Choline Chloride, L-Lysine, Taurine, L-Tryptophan, Vitamin E Supplement, Ascorbic Acid, Niacin Supplement, Manganous Oxide, Tocopherols, Zinc Oxide, Beta-Carotene, D-Calcium Pantothenate, Biotin, Copper Sulfate, Sodium Selenite, Riboflavin Supplement, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride, Vitamin A Supplement, Thiamine Mononitrate, Vitamin B12 Supplement, Folic Acid, Vitamin D3 Supplement.
Guaranteed Analysis
Crude protein (min)36.0%
Crude fat (min) 29.5%
Crude fiber (max)4.9%
Moisture (max)5.0%
Calcium (min)1.02%
Phosphorus (min)0.86%
Sodium0.57%
Metabolizable energy(calculated)4979 kcal/kg dry weight
1.60 kcal/ml when
prepared as directed
Lysine2.30%
Methionine0.80%
Omega-3 fatty acids (min)1.46%
Omega-6 fatty acids (min)12.03%
Caloric Distribution
Protein29.1 %
Fat62.1 %
Digestible carbohydrates8.9 %
Storage

Upon arrival, store EmerAid® in a cool, dry space, and refrigerate powder after opening.

  • EmerAid® has an 18-month shelf life from the time of production.
  • Once opened, refrigerate and use within 6 months.
  • The shelf life for an unopened package of EmerAid® is 18 months from the date of manufacturing or no later than the “Best Before” label on the package.
NOTE: Storage of an unopened container of EmerAid® in the freezer can extend shelf life by up to a year. Taking EmerAid in and out of the freezer for normal use does not extend shelf life. For more information, please visit Storage, Preparation, And Administration Of EmerAid

Handling
EmerAid® has been scientifically designed for extremely high digestibility. Handle product carefully and avoid contamination, which can lead to bacterial overgrowth.

  • Keep dry
  • Use a clean, dry scoop
  • Do not cross-contaminate with scoops used for non-EmerAid® foods
Standard mixing directions
AdultsJuveniles*
SpeciesOmnivoreCarnivoreHerbivorePiscivorewaterOmnivoreCarnivoreHerbivorePiscivore
Birds
Parrots323
Seed-eating passerines – finches323
Dove and Pigeons323
Generalist passerines – sparrows, cardinals, grosbeaks, juncos4.50.5423
Generalist passerines and woodpeckers – corvids, icterids, thrushes21212
Insect-eating passerines – swallows, flycatchers, warblers31221
Domestic ducks and chickens3231
Swans and geese3242.52
Gamebirds – quails, pheasants, turkeys322.50.5
Dabbling ducks – mallards, gadwalls, shovelers, teals320.5
Diving ducks – scaups, canvasbacks, ruddy ducks, scoters242
Piscivorous birds121
Raptors, vultures121
Reptilia & Amphibians
Snakes, monitors, tegus, leopard geckos3121
Crested geckos, day geckos323
Bearded dragons, ground iguanas1.5212
Water dragons, blue-tongued skinks1.5212
Anoles, collared lizards, chameleons121
Tortoises111
Turtles – box turtles, wood turtles, painted turtles, pond turtles1.51.542
Turtles – snapping turtles, mud turtles, musk turtles, longneck turtles, sliders1211
Green iguanas, uromastyxs111
Amphibians121
Mammals
Rabbits, guinea pigs, chinchillas, degus111
Sugar gliders, chipmunks, squirrels, mice, rats322.50.5
Gerbils4.5145
Hamsters32432
Hedgehogs, raccoons, skunks, opossums1.51.5212
Ferrets121
Insectivorous bats121

*Nutri-Start available for juvenile feeding of healthy psittacines
Disclaimer: Species-specific milk replacers are recommended for nursing mammals

Step 1: Correct hypovolemia

Assess hydration deficit and provide fluid therapy

Step 2: Provide support care

Keep patient warm and quiet

Step 3: Determine appropriate EmerAid® or EmerAid® combination

Refer to mixing ratios according to package instructions and tables

Step 4: Determine feeding volume

Step 5: Mix with water for feeding

When mixed as directed, this product will pass through as small as an
18-gauge stainless steel feeding needle and 5Fr feeding tube.

Step 6: Determine feeding frequency

  • Small mammals and birds: feed 3–4x daily
  • Reptiles: feed 1–2x daily

Step 7: Administer EmerAid®

Choose a feeding route according to patient’s level of acceptance (offer free-choice, orally via syringe, administer through nasogastric or esophagostomy tube, or use as a supplement/topper on maintenance diet). Administer all other treatments BEFORE gavaging to prevent regurgitation.

Step 8: Next steps

  • Weigh patient the next day before feeding, fluids, and medications
  • Reassess patient to determine feeding volume
  • Consider other causes of weight loss

EmerAid® Designed for:
Herbivores, Carnivores, Omnivores, Piscivores

IC Herbivore

  • Herbivorous mammals — Rabbits, Guinea pigs
  • Herbivorous reptiles

 

Indications

  • Critically ill or debilitated
  • Dysphagia from severe dental disease — smooth gentle texture minimizes pain when eating
  • Anorexia
  • Gastrointestinal stasis
  • Use IC when smaller feeding volumes are required. When nasogastric tube feeding is required

Sustain Herbivore

  • Herbivorous mammals — Rabbits, Guinea pigs
  • Herbivorous reptiles

 

Indications

  • Chronic dental disease
  • Inappetence — Mint promotes appetite, and self-feeding
  • Gastrointestinal stasis and diarrhea
  • Improved with papaya, beetroot pulp, and prebiotics
  • Geriatric with poor muscle mass
  • Nutritional deficiencies

For animals progressing from critically ill to recovery,
IC and Sustain Herbivore
can be mixed together

Lasts 6 months in the fridge once opened

IC Carnivore

  • Raptors
  • Ferrets
  • Snakes
  • Lizards
  • Long neck turtle

 

Indications

  • Critically ill or debilitated
  • Anorexia and cachexia
  • Gastroenteritis and diarrhea
  • High palatability promotes independent feeding
  • ex: ferrets with kidney disease or lymphoma
  • ex: reptiles with parasitic infection

 

* Can be loaded within prey to increase calories

IC Omnivore

  • Parrots, finches, canaries
  • Chickens, ducks, doves
  • Some lizards (bearded dragons)
  • Rodents (rats and mice)

 

Indications

  • Critically ill or debilitated
  • Anorexia and cachexia
  • Compromised GI Tract
  • Nutritional deficiencies
  • High palatability promotes independent feeding
  • ex: rodents with poor immune systems

 

* Can be used as a topper over maintenance diet

IC Piscivore

  • Pelicans, cormorants
  • Fulmars, shearwaters
  • Egrets, herons
  • Gulls, terns, alcids, piscivorous chelonians
  • Sea turtles, seals

 

Indications

  • Critically ill or debilitated
  • Anorexia and cachexia
  • Compromised GI Tract
  • When tube-feeding is required

 

*Can be loaded within fish to increase calories

Recommended products

This can be mixed with other products to suit a wide range of species, such as the bearded dragon, chameleon, skink, box turtle, and red-ear sliders. See feeding chart for specific species formula recommendations.

Intensive Care Herbivore
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Intensive Care Omnivore
Critical Care Nutrition for Omnivores

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