Small Animal Critical Care Medicine

Small Animal Critical Care Medicine, 3rd edition, is a comprehensive guide to diagnostic and management strategies for veterinary critical care patients. It covers critical care medical therapy, monitoring, and prognosis, with clear and practical guidelines for therapeutic decisions. Over 200 chapters by recognized experts offer in-depth guidance on emergency and critical care clinical situations. The problem-based approach focuses on clinically relevant details, and hundreds of full-color illustrations and appendices provide quick access to essential information. The user-friendly format makes reference easy, and new coverage of high-flow nasal oxygen therapy, mechanical ventilation, and novel procedures helps deliver high-quality care. Additionally, chapters on coagulation disorders, feline aortic thromboembolism, oxygen toxicity, and hypertension, as well as prevention of compassion fatigue and burnout, are included. The enhanced eBook offers online access and searchable content on various devices.

Format: Hardback
Length: 1280 pages
Publication date: 02 December 2022
Publisher: Elsevier - Health Sciences Division

The third edition of the ultimate go-to resource for veterinary critical care, Small Animal Critical Care Medicine, has undergone a significant update to prioritize diagnostic and management strategies for the most critically ill veterinary patients. This comprehensive guide encompasses critical care medical therapy, monitoring, and prognosis, spanning from assessment and stabilization to the entirety of intensive care treatment. To facilitate therapeutic decision-making, clear and practical guidelines address underlying clinical findings, pathophysiology, outpatient follow-up, and long-term care. Editors Deborah Silverstein and Kate Hopper, along with esteemed experts from the veterinary emergency and critical care profession, have crafted this indispensable resource to assist you and your team in delivering the highest standard of care to your critically ill patients.

Spanning over 200 concise and thoroughly revised chapters, this comprehensive text covers all the clinical areas essential for evaluating, diagnosing, managing, and monitoring a critical veterinary patient. More than 150 recognized experts and numerous new authors provide in-depth, authoritative guidance on emergency and critical care clinical situations from diverse perspectives. Adopting a problem-based approach, the text focuses on clinically relevant details, accompanied by hundreds of full-color illustrations featuring updated photos and videos that depict various emergency procedures, including chest tube placement. Convenient appendices offer quick access to frequently needed calculations, conversion tables, continuous rate infusion determinations, reference ranges, and more. The practical, user-friendly format ensures quick and easy reference with summary tables, boxes highlighting key points, illustrations, and algorithmic approaches to diagnosis and management.

In addition to its extensive content, this edition introduces coverage of high-flow nasal oxygen therapy and both core and advanced concepts for mechanical ventilation. This invaluable resource will empower veterinarians and veterinary professionals to provide exceptional care and improve the outcomes for their critically ill patients.

Weight: 2734g
Dimension: 226 x 287 x 51 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780323764698
Edition number: 3 ed