A Color Handbook of Small Animal Emergency and Critical Care Medicine provides the busy veterinary practitioner with a guide to managing emergency and critical care situations.

For easy reference the text is organized by body-system and covers all essential areas including cardiac emergencies, respiratory distress, neurological emergencies, and trauma and poisoning.

This concise handbook focuses on management of the more common emergency and critical care conditions encountered in practice. There are chapters on each body system, on toxicology and other environmental causes, and on critical care skills and techniques ranging from patient monitoring, anesthesia and analgesia, to fluid therapy, transfusion medicine, and nutrition.

The text is illustrated with high-quality color photos, imaging, diagrams, and tables.

Contents

Part 1: Emergency Medicine

1. Shock
2. Cardiac emergencies
3. Respiratory emergencies
4. Hematological emergencies
5. toxicological emergencies
6. Gastrointestinal emergencies
7. Renal emergencies
8. Neurological emergencies
9. Metabolic emergencies
10. Trauma
11. Reproductive emergencies
12. Environmental emergencies

Part 2: Critical Cre

13. Monitoring critical care patients
14. Anesthesia and analgesia for critical care patients
15. Fluid therapy
16. Transfusion medicine for critical care patients
17. Nutritional support of the critically ill patient
18. Techniques

Index

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