Small animal emergency and critical care for veterinary technicians / Andrea M. Battaglia.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Battaglia, Andrea M.
Language:English
Published: St. Louis, MO : Saunders, 2007.
Edition:Second edition.
Subjects:
Veterinary emergencies > Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Veterinary critical care > Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Genre:
Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Physical Description:xvi, 432 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Critically ill small animals
  • The 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.