Main description:

Handling anaesthesia and monitoring equipment, established anaesthesia protocols, modern pain management, dealing with complications and associated diseases of the patient - profound knowledge in a practical, compact and easy-to-read format.

Benefit from the author's extensive wealth of experience as well as valuable tips and tricks from everyday clinical practice.

Overview: Anaesthesia machine and monitoring equipment systematically explained
Comprehensive: Categorisation by animal species - small and large animals including small mammals, South American camelids and horses
At a glance: The most important drugs with indications, dosages, effects and side effects as well as contraindications and precautions
Tailor made: For veterinarians, veterinary students, interns, residents and veterinary nurses

AnaesthesiaSkills support you from A to Z: from alfaxalone to zenalpha, from apnoea to zeroing the transducer - so that you are well prepared for all eventualities!

Knowing what to do, exactly when it matters!

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Contents:

Basics

1 The Anaesthesia Machine

2 Monitoring

3 Stages of general anaesthesia

4 Drugs

Anaesthesia practice

5 Species-specific anaesthesia

6 Physiology and pathophysiology

7 Case management

8 Anaesthetic incidents and complications

9 Pain and pain therapy

10 Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) in small animals

11 Euthanasia

Appendix

12 List of abbreviations

13 Further reading