Small Animal Critical Care Medicine is a comprehensive, concise guide to critical care, encompassing not only triage and stabilization, but also the entire course of care during the acute medical crisis and high-risk period. This clinically oriented manual assists practitioners in providing the highest standard of care for ICU patients.
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The second edition of Small Animal Critical Care Medicine should be somewhere in everyone’s clinic, whether a first-line practice or a specialized clinic."
Reviewed by:
Kris Gommeren on behalf of the European Journal of Companion Animal Practice, Oct 2015
Over 200 concise chapters
are thoroughly updated to cover all of the clinical areas needed for evaluating, diagnosing, managing, and monitoring a critical veterinary patient.
More than 150 recognized experts
offer in-depth, authoritative guidance on emergency and critical care clinical situations from a variety of perspectives.
A problem-based approach
focuses on clinically relevant details.
Practical, user-friendly format
makes reference quick and easy with summary tables, boxes highlighting key points, illustrations, and algorithmic approaches to diagnosis and management.
Hundreds of full-color illustrations
depict various emergency procedures such as chest tube placement.
Appendices
offer quick access to the most often needed calculations, conversion tables, continuous rate infusion determinations, reference ranges, and more.
All-NEW chapters
include
Minimally Invasive Diagnostics and Therapy, T-FAST and A-FAST, Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome (SIRS), Multiple Organ Dysfunction Syndrome (MODS), Sepsis, Physical Therapy Techniques, ICU Design and Management,
and
Communication Skills and Grief Counseling.
NEW!
Coverage of basic and advanced mechanical ventilation
helps you in deliver high-quality care to patients with respiratory failure.
Coverage of increasingly prevalent problems seen in the Intensive Care Unit
includes multidrug-resistant bacterial infections and coagulation disorders.
NEW
chapters on fluid therapy and transfusion therapy
provide information on how to prevent complications and maximize resources.
UPDATED coagulation section
includes chapters on hypercoagulability, platelet function and testing, anticoagulant therapy, and hemostatic drugs.