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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
editors, James A. Orsini, Thomas J. Divers.
Description based on opening page (viewed Oct 25, 2017).
Includes bibliographical references and index.
St. Louis, MO : Elsevier/Saunders, [2014]