Author : Knottenbelt, Malalana
Language: English
Finishing :: Hardcover, 512 pages
ISBN : 9780702051098
Edition Number: November 2014
Description:
This is an indispensable reference for equine veterinary practitioners, veterinary students, and others involved in breeding and keeping horses. This new edition has been fully revised, updated and re-written in a more user-friendly style and format with the inclusion of high quality line drawings and photographs to aid understanding. Also, a conscious decision was made to use generic drug names making this as relevant as possible for everybody working in the equine field all over the world.
Features:
- A listing of haematological, biochemical, physiological, and therapeutic data is contained in just one volume, designed with the final-year vet student and recent graduate in mind.
- Information on drug dosages and adverse reactions reflects manufacturers’ recommendations in data sheets and literature inserts.
- Clinical Aids section provides highly practical advice and quick synopses for the most common scenarios likely to occur on a field visit, such as bandaging techniques, humane destruction, and restraint techniques.
- Practical, universal relevance is created by the use of SI units and generic drug names - making this reference useful to everyone working in the equine field all over the world, whether vet student or equine specialist.
- Practical, step-by-step instructions summarize principal diagnostic tests.
New To This Edition:
- A handy interactive app format allows extra-quick, point-of-care reference.
- A full-colour design includes more high-quality line drawings and adds photographs showing nerve block techniques.
- Revised clinical techniques section deals with the difficult horse and restraint methods, including field anaesthesia.
- Algorithmic approach updates and clarifies emergency procedures, wound management, disease control protocols, and more.
- Wound dressings and suturing sections are thoroughly modernized.
- Updates include all drugs and dosages and regulatory news.
Table of Contents:
Part 1: Vital Signs, Normal Values
- Reference Values
- Sample Collection
- Reproductive Data
Part 2: Diagnostic Tests
Part 3: Index of Drugs Used in Equine Medicine
- The Use of Veterinary Medicinal Products
- Guidelines for the Use of Medicines in Equine Animals
- Prescriptions
- Prescription Abbreviations
- Drug Categorisation for Prescription Purposes
- Distribution Categories (UK) from October 2005
- Section 1: Drugs Acting on Central Nervous System
- Section 2: Drugs Acting on the Cardiovascular System
- Section 3: Drugs Acting on the Respiratory System
- Section 4: Drugs Acting on the Urinary Tract
- Section 5: Drugs Acting on the Gastrointestinal Tract
- Section 6: Hormones/Steroids and Non-steroidal Anti-inflammatory Drugs
- Section 7: Anti-infective Drugs
- Section 8: Blood Modifying Agents
- Section 9: Vaccines/Antisera
- Section 10: Miscellaneous Drugs/Medications and Other Materials
Part 4: Clinical Aids
- Section 1: Bodyweight and Surface Area Estimation
- Section 2: Imperial-Metric Conversion
- Section 3: SI Unit Conversion Factors
- Section 4: Restraint of Horses
- Section 5: Ageing
- Section 6: Humane Destruction
- Section 7: Bandaging Techniques
- Section 8: Clinical Techniques
- Section 9: Signs of Impending Parturition
- Section 10: Neonatal Assessment and Sepsis Scoring of Foals
- Section 11: Poisons and Antidotes
- Section 12: Notifiable Diseases
- Section 13: Investigative Methods/Protocols
- Section 14: Equipment for Equine Practice
- Section 15: Anaesthesia
- Section 16 Current Requirements Concerning Drug Usage and Passport Regulations in the UK
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