Emergency and Critical Care of Small Animals, An Issue of Veterinary Clinics of North America: Small Animal Practice 1st Edition

Emergency and Critical Care of Small Animals, Volume 50-6

Emergency and Critical Care of Small Animals, Volume 50-6 provides a focused collection of veterinary articles covering advanced emergency and critical care for small animal patients. Topics include cardiopulmonary resuscitation, transfusion medicine, respiratory emergencies, trauma, critical illness, anesthesia, nutritional support, and intensive care therapies. It also addresses conditions such as canine parvoviral enteritis and immune-mediated hemolytic anemia. The volume offers practical and clinically relevant information for veterinarians working in emergency and critical care settings.

Key Features:

• Covers current approaches to small animal emergency and critical care
• Discusses cardiopulmonary resuscitation and resuscitative strategies
• Provides guidance on transfusion medicine and albumin therapy
• Examines extracorporeal therapies used in emergency and intensive care
• Covers respiratory and ocular emergencies in small animal patients
• Addresses trauma management and critical patient stabilization
• Discusses therapeutic strategies for immune-mediated hemolytic anemia
• Covers antithrombotic therapy, immunoglobulin use, and anticonvulsant treatment
• Includes nutritional support and total intravenous anesthesia for critical patients
• Explores point-of-care ultrasound, thromboelastography, and biosecurity in clinical practice