Practical guidance on managing chronic illnesses in small animals

Chronic Disease Management for Small Animals provides a complete resource for the long-term care and therapy of canine and feline patients with incurable conditions. Offering practical strategies for successful management of chronic disorders, the book presents expert guidance on handling these ailments and the animals that they afflict.

Written by leading experts in their respective fields, Chronic Disease Management for Small Animals takes a multidisciplinary approach to the subject, covering chronic diseases across many categories, including mobility, dermatology, ophthalmology, internal medicine, and more. The book is not meant to replace existing textbooks, but is designed to be used as a practical guide that educates the reader about the many therapeutic options for chronic disease management. Coverage encompasses:

• The impact that chronic disease has on the quality of life for both the patient and its owner
• Specific chronic diseases, outlining diagnostics, therapeutics, and quality of life concerns
• Hospice care and end of life, including client and pet needs, quality of life, cultural sensitivities, dying naturally, euthanasia, and death

Chronic Disease Management for Small Animals is an essential reference for recently qualified and seasoned practitioners alike, supporting clinicians in making decisions and communicating with clients regarding long-term care. It is an ideal book for all small animal practitioners and veterinary students.

Provides the information needed to interpret clinical laboratory assays of domestic mammals

Fundamentals of Veterinary Clinical Pathology, Third Edition presents thoroughly updated and detailed information to promote appropriate clinical laboratory testing and interpretation of test results for common domestic mammals. Presented in an easy-to-use outline format complemented by many relevant tables and illustrations, the book is now in full color. This evidence-based guide synthesizes the laboratory principles, physiology, assays, analytical concepts, pathophysiologic states, and pathophysiologic processes relevant to detecting, evaluating, and understanding disorders in dogs, cats, horses, cattle, and camelids.

Content additions include two entirely new chapters on synovial and cerebrospinal fluid analysis, as well as expanded sections on blood typing and crossmatching, viscoelastic testing, protein electrophoresis, positive acute-phase proteins, mixed acid-base disorders, vitamin D analysis, analytical and biological variation, blood smear evaluation, and more. New clinical tests and methods, useful data patterns, and additional disorders and pathologic processes are integrated throughout.

Providing a conceptual understanding applicable to many species and serving as a valuable clinical reference, Fundamentals of Veterinary Clinical Pathology:

• Uses consistent terminology and chapter organization featuring separate sections for physiologic concepts, analytical methods, and interpretation of results
• Provides pathophysiologic explanations of laboratory abnormalities
• Allows easy access to information on disorders and conditions, grouping them by common mechanisms or processes and ordering them in parallel across interpretive tables and text
• Features a wealth of high-quality illustrations and photomicrographs throughout the text
• Includes extensive referencing on the companion website to support statements and provide direction for further reading

Fundamentals of Veterinary Clinical Pathology, Third Edition is an excellent textbook for veterinary students taking clinical pathology courses, as well as a valuable resource for clinical and anatomic pathology residents, medicine and surgery residents, and practicing veterinarians.

Clinical Small Animal Internal Medicine is a comprehensive, practical reference designed to meet the needs of veterinary practitioners and students alike. Covering all aspects of small animal internal medicine, this innovative guide provides clinically relevant material, plus podcasts and continual updates online. Concise, identically-formatted chapters allow readers to quickly find the most essential information for clinical veterinary practice.

Contributions from academic and clinical experts cover general medicine subjects, including patient evaluation and management, critical care medicine, preventative care, and diagnostic and therapeutic considerations. Topics relevant to daily clinical practice are examined in detail, ranging from endocrine, cardiovascular, respiratory, and infectious disease to oncology, dermatology, metabolic orthopedic disease, gastroenterology, and hepatology. A companion website features podcasts and updated information. An important addition to the library of any practice, this clinically-oriented text:

• Presents complete, practical information on small animal internal medicine
• Provides the background physiology required to understand normal versus abnormal in real-world clinical settings
• Includes general medicine topics not covered in other internal medicine books
• Focuses on information that is directly applicable to daily practice
• Features podcasts and continual updates on a companion website

Carefully tailored for the needs of small animal practitioners and veterinary students , Clinical Small Animal Internal Medicine is an invaluable, reader-friendly reference on internal medicine of the dog and cat.

Chronic pain is unlike acute pain, it lasts beyond the time necessary for healing and resists normal treatment. No one patient feels pain in the same way and yet in veterinary medicine the patient's gain is generally assessed based on a single standard. This book is written for the veterinary health care professional seeking a greater depth of knowledge in the mechanisms of pain accompanying chronic disease states, and the potential targets for treatment.

Prior to publication of the first edition of Clinical Medicine of the Dog and Cat, no other comprehensive small animal veterinary medicine book existed with a comparable amount of relevant illustrated material. This new third edition continues and expands on the revolutionary approach of the previous two editions, now including more than 1,850 highly valuable clinical colour photographs, diagrams, and tables. The third edition of this book has been completely revised and updated. The book is now divided into five color-coded sections – General Approach, Disease of Specific Organ Systems, Multisystemic Disorders, Elements of Therapy and Case Studies. As with the first and second editions of this book the overriding principle of succinct, yet comprehensive text presented in a clear format with an abundance of good quality images remains. Section I: General Approach is completely new and covers medical history and client communication, and common clinical problems. Section II: Specific Organ Systems is organized by body system with chapters structured in a systematic manner that include the definition for each disorder, its causes, clinical features, differential diagnoses, diagnostic methodology, treatment and prognosis, providing readers with easy access to important clinical information. New to this section are chapters covering diseases of the oral cavity and teeth, approach to thoracic radiographs, approach to abdominal radiographs, and disorders of hemostasis. Section III: Multisystemic Disorders covers revised and updated chapters including clinical toxicology, infectious diseases, and immunologic disorders. Section IV: Elements of Therapy covers therapies such as fluid therapy, pain management, nutrition of the critically ill dog and cat and a new chapter on management of the obese dog or cat. Section V: Case Studies includes over 25 case studies that enable the reader to relate the knowledge gained in the book to clinical cases seen in practice. Written by board-certified experts with several case contributions by clinicians in advanced phases of resident training, topics were carefully selected to make this a valuable resource to the general practitioner and also to small animal interns and veterinary students.

Dieses englischsprachige Buch ist ein Standardwerk zur Gastroenterologie bei Kleintieren. Das Autorenteam von über 30 international renommierten Spezialisten aus Europa und den USA liefert den State of the Art dieser Fachdisziplin.

Veterinary Clinical Pathology: A Case-Based Approach presents 200 cases with questions for those interested in improving their skills in veterinary clinical pathology. It emphasises an understanding of basic pathophysiologic mechanisms of disease, differential diagnoses and recognition of patterns associated with various diseases or conditions. Topics discussed include haematology, clinical chemistry, endocrinology, acid-base and blood gas analysis, haemostasis, urinalysis, biological variation and quality control. Species covered include the cat, dog and horse, with additional material on rum.

Fluid Therapy for Veterinary Technicians and Nurses provides veterinary support staff with essential information on administering fluid therapy. Encompassing catheter placement, monitoring of intravenous fluid therapy, long-term fluid therapy, intravenous nutrition, equipment, and potential complications, the book supports the reader in obtaining and maintaining intravenous access, monitoring patient responses, and reacting to changes in the patient’s condition. With complete coverage of the principles and procedures, Fluid Therapy for Veterinary Technicians and Nurses offers both a solid grounding in the fundamentals and more advanced information for experienced technician. Designed for ease of use, each chapter begins with the basics, giving a thorough foundation of information, and then moves into more advanced information, with potential nursing concerns and complications highlighted within the text. A companion website offers images from the book in PowerPoint and review questions and answers for download at www.wiley.com/go/donohoenursing. Fluid Therapy for Veterinary Technicians and Nurses is a useful resource for experienced veterinary technicians and vet tech students alike.

This book aims to introduce veterinary surgeons to a new concept of pain for a better understanding of what pain is and how it occurs. By describing pain pathways and their regulation, as well as the sophisticated therapeutic systems that are currently being developed, this book shows its readers how to interpret pain, and how identify it as a pathology in itself and treat it as such.

The editor and his author team of international renown have produced a landmark volume – the first fully illustrated textbook of small animal clinical medicine. While covering all the major areas of internal medicine of the dog and cat, the emphasis is on brevity and the more common disorders. The book is organised by body system, and each chapter is structured in a consistent way, providing the definition of each disorder, its causes, clinical features, differential diagnoses, diagnosis and management options. The practical, focused text is richly illustrated throughout by over 1,000 clinical colour photographs, imaging, diagrams and tables, and will be of lasting value to practitioners and students as a learning resource and permanent reference. For sales to North American, please visit http://store.blackwell-professional.com/0813803322.html

Clinical Veterinary Language emphasizes learning and understanding veterinary language, rather than focusing primarily on anatomy and physiology. Case studies, pronunciation guides, and word-building exercises clarify word parts and concepts to help you master word meanings and the way words are built. This practical resource provides the tools you need to communicate effectively in any veterinary setting. - Clinically focused chapters with case studies and medical reports provide you with the opportunity to apply your vocabulary knowledge. - Fill-in-the-blanks, Matching, Define the Word exercises, and more in every chapter offer vocabulary-building skills practice. - Quick Tips, Watch Out! and Interesting Word Origins boxes highlight key concepts and make learning vocabulary fun. - Objectives, key terms, outlines, chapter introductions, and key points help you prioritize information to ensure you understand what is most important in every chapter.

Fluid therapy is one of the most widely used and necessary therapies for critically ill patients and those who are not able to hydrate and feed themselves spontaneously. Fluid Therapy in dogs and cats summarizes the fundamentals for understanding the water and electrolyte requirements of critical patients, the types of fluids that can be administered, and the consequences that a decision may entail. This handbook is published at a particularly relevant time, with the recent developments in orthogonal polarization spectral imaging; the advancements in hemodynamics, which have made it possible to assess the real efficacy of therapy and the side effects fluids can produce if not provided correctly; and the evidence-based advances that have changed the way fluid therapy in both human and veterinary medicine is now provided, which is very different from how it had been performed over the past 30 years. An attempt has been made in this book to address the topics homogeneously, following a functional approach for readers. Every chapter ends with a clinical case, which is useful for putting into practice what has been explained in the text.

**Selected for Doody's Core Titles® 2024 with "Essential Purchase" designation in Veterinary Medicine**Now Ettinger's trusted, all-in-one veterinary resource is even better! Trusted by small animal veterinarians for more than 50 years, Ettinger's Textbook of Veterinary Internal Medicine adds new content on the field's leading issues and trends to its unmatched, "gold standard" coverage of the diagnosis and treatment of medical problems of dogs and cats. Coverage begins with the basics of veterinary medicine, followed by sections on differential diagnosis for chief complaints and for clinicopathologic abnormalities, and continues with techniques, minimally invasive interventional therapies, critical care, toxicology, diseases by body system, and comorbidities. Clinical information is presented in a way that reflects the practitioner's thought process. With each purchase of this two-volume print book, Ettinger's includes access to a fully searchable eBook featuring more than 750 videos that bring procedures to life. - UNIQUE! 50th anniversary edition of this classic textbook. - NEW! Coverage of the latest information and trends includes epilepsy, aerodigestive disorders, patient triage and stabilization, enteric protozoal diseases, pulmonary thromboembolism, point-of-care ultrasounds, immunodeficiencies, and more. - More than 750 original clinical videos are included with purchase of the print book, providing content you can believe in. Forget those time-consuming searches on YouTube, as each video expertly breaks down veterinary procedures and important signs of diseases and disorders that are difficult or impossible to understand from written descriptions alone. - NEW! PDFs in Techniques chapters include a printable pull list of the equipment and materials needed for specific techniques, along with check boxes (accessed through eBook included with print purchase). - eBook version is included with purchase of the print book, allowing you to access all the text, figures, and references, with the ability to search, customize content, make notes and highlights, and have content read aloud. The eBook also offers the complete collection of original video clips, heart sounds, client information sheets, and hyperlinking of references to their source abstracts in PubMed®. - NEW! Additional new material is included on nutritional cardiomyopathy, coronavirus infections, host-microbial interactions in gastrointestinal health, and autonomic nervous system disorders. - More than 200 clinical algorithms aid in disease identification and decision-making. - Fully searchable online text offers quick access to the most important, newest, and relevant veterinary information. - More than 250 client information sheets are available in the eBook (included with print purchase) with short, easy-to-understand clinical descriptions of conditions, diagnostics, and treatment options; these pages may be downloaded, customized, and printed as client handouts. - Thousands of references for the printed book are accessible online. - Expert contributors from around the world provide practical insight into the latest advances and issues affecting small animal medicine.

Prepare for the role and responsibilities of the veterinary assistant! Elsevier's Veterinary Assisting Textbook, 4th Edition, covers everything you need to know to pass the Approved Veterinary Assistant (AVA) Exam and succeed in clinical practice. NAVTA-approved guidelines help in learning to assist in laboratory and radiographic procedures, properly restraining animals, setting up equipment and supplies, cleaning and maintaining practice facilities, feeding and exercising patients, collecting samples, handling and dispensing medications, grooming patients, and record keeping. Updated content reflects the latest Fear-FreeT handling techniques and the veterinary assistant's role in helping owners through pet loss.

NEW! Hospice, Grief, and Pet Loss chapter discusses the human-animal bond, stages of grief, and other principles of the veterinary assistant's role in helping the owner through pet loss.

EXPANDED! Behavior content includes the latest Fear-FreeT handling methods.

NEW! Practice quizzes on the companion Evolve website allow you to test your understanding of key concepts.

UPDATED! Drug information covers the newest pharmacologic agents and their uses, adverse side effects, and dosage forms.

UPDATED! Infection control and vaccination coverage keeps you up to date with the latest guidelines and protocols.

Comprehensive coverage provides everything you need to prepare for the Approved Veterinary Assistant (AVA) certification exam.

Step-by-step instructions and hundreds of colorful photographs clearly break down veterinary assisting tasks and clarify essential information.

Discussion of office procedures and client relations prepares you for the business aspects of veterinary practice and how to work closely with management staff.

User-friendly features in each chapter include learning objectives, a chapter outline, and key terms, and an emphasis on the concepts you are expected to learn.

Coverage of the workflow in a veterinary practice clarifies the role of the veterinary assistant in relation to all other members of the veterinary healthcare team.

Critical Concept boxes provide useful tips to improve your knowledge and skills.

Using case examples of canine and feline necropsies, Veterinary Necropsy of Dogs and Cats is a practical guide to performing a necropsy, understanding anatomical connections and underlying pathological findings. It takes a body systems approach to cover the cardiovascular system, respiratory system, digestive system etc. chapter by chapter, each including a clinical history, laboratory test results and illustrated pathological findings. Each chapter contains the case report and a self-assessment review with model answers at core and specialist levels. Throughout are tips on sample collection, lesion recognition, common artefacts and pitfalls and advice from experienced practitioners on building confidence and competence with general procedures and dealing with complications and difficult cases. Veterinary Necropsy of Dogs and Cats is a useful resource for undergraduates, qualified vets and pathologists as it provides self-assessment review at different levels, and cases are mapped to Day One Competencies. The approach is very practical and accessible, with advice and commentary from the authors, based on their experience.