Small animal emergency and critical care for veterinary technicians / Andrea Battaglia.
Material type: TextPublication details: Edinburgh : Elsevier Saunders, 2007.Edition: 2nd edDescription: 464 p. : illISBN:- 9781416028048 (pbk.) :
- 9781416028048
- 636.0896025 BAT
- SF778 .B38 2007
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Previous ed.: published as Small animal emergency and critical care. Philadelphia, Pa.: W.B. Saunders, 2000.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Critically ill small animals -- Skill of observation and interpretation -- Basic monitoring of the emergency and critical care patient -- Patient\'s lifeline: intravenous catheter -- Fluid therapy -- Small animal transfusion medicine -- Nutritional support for the critically ill patient -- Oxygen therapy techniques -- Mechanical ventilation -- Pain assessment and treatment -- Anesthesia in the critically ill or injured animal -- Isolation techniques in clinical practice -- Emergency care for small animals -- Management of the patient in shock -- Cardiopulmonary cerebrovascular resuscitation -- Trauma -- Hematologic emergencies -- Cardiovascular emergencies -- Respiratory emergencies -- Gastrointestinal emergencies -- Metabolic and endrocrine emergencies -- Urologic emergencies -- Reproductive emergencies -- Ocular emergencies -- Neurologic system emergencies -- Toxicologic emergencies -- Avian and exotic emergencies -- Disaster medicine -- Practice management -- The art of scheduling -- Risk management and the emergency veterinary technician.
This text provides quick access to dozens of common, life-saving protocols and procedures. Each procedure is thoroughly illustrated, described in detail, including important coverage of common drugs used to stabilise and maintain patients.