Sergio Serrano, LV, DVM, DACVECC obtained his Veterinary Degree from the UAB University in Barcelona, Spain, way back in the Twentieth Century.
After 10 years of working in emergency and critical care in Spain, Dr. Serrano moved to the UK in 2003 to complete a three-year residency at the Royal Veterinary College in London. He became a diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care in 2006.
After two more years in the UK, he traded cloudy London for sunny Southern California in 2008, just to move again a few years later, this time to the East Coast. He has been living there ever since, some days more happily than others.
Dr. Serrano spends his working days with his clinical duties as a critical care specialist, working in the ER, the ICU, and wherever he is needed in the hospital. He has trained rotating interns, specialty interns and residents in emergency and critical care. He has also supervised rotations for residents in surgery, internal medicine, neurology, and anesthesiology.
The author or co-author of several papers and book chapters, he has lectured at more than 100 events across Europe, North America, South America, and Asia. Considering himself privileged for his situation and achievements, Dr. Serrano sees sharing his knowledge as a way to give back and improve the care sick pets can receive everywhere.
Trauma, pediatric critical care, sepsis and emergency surgery are his main areas of interest. When he is not at work, Dr. Serrano is an avid motorcyclist, a very enthusiastic yet terrible sailor and, for reasons he cannot fully understand, has gone back into climbing–despite his severe fear of heights.
Journal Papers
Serrano S. Paediatric emergency and critical care. Part 1. In Practice, Journal of the British Veterinary Association. 2014:36(2):58-65
Short J, Diehl S, Serrano S, Seshadri R. Evaluation of predictive formulae of post-transfusion packed cell volume in anemic dogs. Journal of Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care. 2012:22(4):428-434
Son T, Thompson L, Serrano S, Seshadri R. Surgical intervention in the management of Feline Severe Acute Pancreatitis: A retrospective study of 8 cases. Journal of Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care 2010;20(4):426-435
Goggs R, Serrano S, Szalovitz B, Keir I, Ong R, Hughes D. Clinical investigation of a point-of-care blood ammonia analyzer. Veterinary Clinical pathology 2008;37(2):198-206
Serrano S, Hughes D, Chandler K. Use of Ketamine for the management of refractory status epilepticus in a dog. Journal of Veterinary Internal Medicine 2006;20:194-197
Boyd SP, Taugner FM, Serrano S, Gregory SP, Tennant KV. Matrix “blues”: clue to a cranial thoracic mass in a dog. Veterinary Clinical Pathology 2005; 34(3): 271-4.
Book Chapters
Serrano S. Pulmonary contusions and hemorrhage. In Silverstein (ed.) Saunders Manual of Critical Care Medicine for Dogs and Cats, 3rd edition. Saunders, 2022 (Also author in the first and second editions)
Serrano S. Abdominal Trauma. In Tello L (ed.): El gato atropellado. Intermedica, pp. 79-90, 2018.
Serrano S. Thoracic Trauma. In Tello L (ed.) Trauma en pequeños animales. Intermedica, pp. 205-209, 2015
Serrano S. Traumatic Brain Injury. In Tello L (ed.) Trauma en pequeños animales. Intermedica, pp. 201-204, 2015
