Practical emergency and critical care veterinary nursing /

• Main Author: Aldridge, Paul
• Other Authors: O'Dwyer, Louise
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Chichester, West Sussex : Wiley-Blackwell, 2013.
• Subjects: Veterinary nursing.; Veterinary emergencies.; Veterinary critical care.; Animal Diseases > nursing.; Critical Care > methods.; Emergencies > veterinary.; MEDICAL > Veterinary Medicine > Food Animal.; MEDICAL > Veterinary Medicine > Small Animal.; Electronic books.

This book provides vital information for emergency and critical care situations, whether youre looking for confidence in handling emergency cases in a first-opinion practice, or a relevant, succinct guide for an emergency clinic.

Table of Contents:

• Triage and assessment of emergency patient
• Monitoring critical patients
• Vascular access
• Shock and intravenous fluid therapy
• Blood gas, acid-base analysis, and electrolyte abnormalities
• Analgesia and anaesthesia of the emergency and critical patient
• Practical laboratory techniques
• Techniques for oxygen supplementation
• The dyspnoeic patient
• Nursing the cardiac patient
• Nursing the acute abdomen patient
• Nursing urinary tract emergencies
• Nursing the poisoned patient
• Nursing the trauma patient
• Nursing the reproductive patient
• Small animal critical care and hospitalised patient nutrition
• Nursing the emergency ophthalmology patient
• Cardiopulmonary arrest and resuscitation
• Nursing considerations in the critical patient.