Manual of Small Animal Emergency and Critical Care Medicine provides clear, concise management advice from a team of leaders in emergency veterinary medicine, making it a valuable text for the classroom and an indispensable resource for emergency situations in daily veterinary practice.

Written in an easy-to-follow outline format, Manual of Small Animal Emergency and Critical Care Medicine gives you rapid access to essential information needed to stabilize and treat the emergency and critical care patient.

Part One outlines initial care of the trauma or critical patient, followed by coverage that ranges from triage to basic fluid therapy, monitoring, and continuous care.

Part Two features emergency care coverage organized by body system, beginning with the general approach to patients with emergent signs in each system and followed by protocols for specific conditions.

In this manual you'll find:

• An easy-to-use outline format and hands-on approach that make quick work of locating procedures and clinical information during emergency situations
• An extensively indexed and cross-referenced text to provide thorough coverage of emergency conditions
• Two-part organization: Part 1: Life Support, Initial Stabilization, Monitoring, and Intensive Care of the Critically Ill Patient, provides an in-depth overview of caring for the critically ill patient; Part 2: Specific Protocols and Procedures for Emergency Conditions, provides a systems-based approach to common emergencies
• A wide range of useful formulas, tables, drug dosages, and illustrations make this book a vital resource for practicing veterinarians and veterinary students alike

Contents

Part 1: Life Support Initial Stablilization, Monitoring and Intensive Care of the Critically Ill Patient

1. Approach to the emergency patient
2. Emergency room readiness
3. Cardiopulmonary-cerebral resuscitation (CPCR)
4. Shock
5. Anesthetic protocols for short procedures
6. Fluid therapy
7. Monitoring critical patients
8. Nutritional support of critical patients

Part 2: Specific Protocols and Procedures for Emergency Conditions

9. Respiratory emergencies
10. Cardiac emergencies
11. Gastrointestinal emergencies
12. Urologic emergencies
13. Neurologic emergencies
14. Hematologic emergencies
15. Endocrine and metabolic emergencies
16. Reproductive emergencies
17. Pediatric emergencies
18. Ocular emergencies
19. Dermatologic emergencies
20. Toxicologic emergencies
21. Miscellaneous emergencies

Appendices

• Calibration tables for the Schiotz Tonometer
• Normal values for the canine and feline electrocardiogram
• CPCR guidelines
• Common equations
• Constant rate infusions
• Conversion tables
• Normal values for oxygen and hemodynamic parameters
• Toxicology
• Transfusion guide
• Drug formulary
• Guidelines for anesthesia in animals with critical problems

Index

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