Main description:

The first book in the field written expressly for veterinary technicians, Small Animal Emergency and Critical Care, 2nd Edition is efficiently organized for fast consultations and provides quick access to dozens of common, life-saving protocols and procedures. This book focuses on how to maintain patients' conditions and provide specific nursing care that is beneficial to the individual patient's recovery, including how to maintain and handle the various access ports used in the critically ill animal.

Contents:

Section One: Critically Ill Small Animals

1. The skill of observation and interpretation

2. Basic laboratory equipment

3. Patient's lifeline

4. Fluid therapy

5. Small animal transfusion medicine

6. Nutritional support for the critically ill patient

7. Oxygen therapy techniques

8. Mechanical ventilation

9. Pain assessment and treatment

10. Anesthesia in the critically ill or injured patient

11. Isolating the critically ill small animal patient with infectious disease

Section Two: Emergency Care for Small Animals

12. Management of the shock patient

13. Cardiopulmonary resuscitation

14. Trauma

15. Hematologic emergencies

16. Cardiovascular emergencies

17. Respiratory system emergencies

18. Gastrointestinal system emergencies

19. Metabolic and endocrine system emergencies

20. Urogenital system emergencies

21. Reproductive system emergencies

22. Ocular emergencies

23. Neurologic system emergencies

24. Toxicologic emergencies

25. Avian and exotic emergencies

26. Disaster medicine

Section Three: Practice Management

27. The art of scheduling

28. Risk management and the emergency veterinary technician