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"Covering the veterinary technician's role in caring for small animals requiring emergency and critical care, this practical resource provides quick access to dozens of life-saving protocols and procedures. Each treatment technique is described in step-by-step detail and illustrated in ful...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Battaglia, Andrea M. (Editor), Steele, Andrea M. (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: St. Louis, Missouri : Elsevier, 2016.
Edition:Third edition.
Subjects:
Veterinary emergencies > Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Veterinary critical care > Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Emergencies > veterinary.
Animal Technicians.
Critical Care.
Dog Diseases.
Cat Diseases.
Dogs.
Cats.
Table of Contents:
  • Critical thinking : skill of observation and interpretation
  • Monitoring of the critically ill or injured patient
  • Patient's lifeline : intravenous catheter
  • Fluid therapy
  • Transfusion medicine
  • Nutritional support for the critically ill patient
  • Oxygen therapy techniques
  • Mechanical ventilation
  • Pain assessment and treatment
  • Anesthesia in the critically ill or injured patient
  • Isolation techniques in clinical practice
  • Emergency receiving
  • Management of patients in shock
  • Cardiopulmonary resuscitation current practice
  • Traumatic emergencies
  • Hematologic emergencies
  • Cardiovascular emergencies
  • Respiratory emergencies
  • Gastrointestinal emergencies
  • Metabolic and endocrine emergencies
  • Urologic emergencies
  • Reproductive emergencies
  • Ocular emergencies
  • Neurologic emergencies
  • Toxicologic emergencies
  • Avian and exotic emergencies
  • Disaster medicine
  • The art of scheduling
  • Client communication in an emergency.