DESCRPTION:
New edition of a popular guide for small animal veterinary practitioners covering anaesthesia and its administration. ?This new edition covers not only the medical aspects, but also the legal, ethical and practical consequences before, during and after surgery
- The use of anaesthetics and analgesics is broken down into their use in dental, ophthalmic and thoracic surgery among others, and the impact of various diseases and disorders on their efficacy
- Provides advice on how to deal with complications and emergencies and techniques for managing pain
CONTENTS:
1. Practice of veterinary anaesthesia and analgesia
2. The recovery room
3. Postoperative monitoring and complications
4. Pain management and patient comfort
5. Anaesthetic machine, vaporizers, ventilators
6. Breathing systems and ancillary equipment
7. Proposed author: Lynne Hughes (Dublin)
8. Patient monitoring, equipment and guidelines
9. Physiology and pathophysiology of pain
10. Pain assessment methods and management
11. Premedication and sedation
12. Anaesthetics and methods of administration
13. Muscle relaxants
14. Fluid therapy and blood transfusion
15. Ophthalmic surgery
16. Dental and oral surgery
17. Cardiovascular disease
18. Respiratory Disease
19. Thoracic surgery
20. Gastrointestinal and hepatic disease
21. Urogenital disease
22. Caesarian section
23. Neurological disease
24. Anaesthesia for MRI
25. Paediatric and geriatric patients
26. Anaesthetic accidents, reactions, complications and emergencies
