Equine emergencies : treatment and procedures /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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St. Louis, Mo. :
Elsevier/Saunders,
[2014]
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| Edition: | Fourth edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Blood collection
- Medication administration and alternative methods of drug administration
- Intravenous catheter placement
- Venous access via cutdown
- Regional perfusion, intraosseous, and resuscitation infusion techniques
- Biopsy techniques
- Hyperbaric oxygen therapy
- Complementary therapies in emergencies: acupuncture
- Laboratory diagnosis of bacterial, fungal, viral, and parasitic pathogens
- Emergency and critical care monitoring
- Cytology
- Emergency diagnostic endoscopy
- Gene testing
- Imaging techniques and indications for the emergency patient
- Emergency laboratory tests and point-of-care diagnostics
- Blood coagulation disorders
- Cardiovascular system
- Gastrointestinal system
- Integumentary system: wound healing, management and reconstruction
- Liver failure, anemia, and blood transfusion
- Musculoskeletal system
- Nervous system
- Ophthalmology
- Reproductive system
- Respiratory system
- Urinary system
- Monitoring the pregnant mare
- Emergency foaling
- Foal resuscitation
- Perinatology and the high-risk pregnant mare
- Neonatology
- Shock and systemic inflammatory response syndrome
- Temperature related problems: hypothermia and hyperthermia
- Toxicology
- Burns, acute soft tissue swellings, pigeon fever, and fasciotomy
- Caring for the down horse
- Disaster medicine and technical emergency rescue
- Emergency treatment of mules and donkeys
- Emergency problems unique to draft horses
- Emergency diseases outside the continental United States
- Flood injury in horses
- Foot injuries
- Laminitis
- Emergencies of the racing athlete
- Snake envenomation
- Thoracic trauma
- Anesthesia for out of hospital emergencies
- Euthanasia/humane destruction
- Pain management
- Medical management of the starved horse
- Nutritional guidelines for the injured, hospitalized and postsurgical patient
- Contagious and zoonotic diseases
- Standard precautions and infectious disease management