Your Gold Standard in Veterinary Internal Medicine, 50th Anniversary Edition
For more than 50 years, this book has been the trusted, all-in-one veterinary resource for the diagnosis and treatment of medical problems in dogs and cats. Selected as a Doody’s Core Titles® 2024, this classic textbook is now even better, adding new content on the field’s leading issues and trends. It is an unparalleled, "gold standard" guide that reflects the practitioner's thought process, providing comprehensive coverage from the basics of veterinary medicine to critical care, toxicology, diseases by body system, and comorbidities.
Key Features
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Comprehensive Content: Covers a wide range of topics, including differential diagnoses for chief complaints and clinicopathologic abnormalities, techniques, minimally invasive interventional therapies, critical care, toxicology, diseases by body system, and comorbidities.
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Extensive Video Library: More than 750 original clinical videos are included with the purchase of the print book, expertly breaking down veterinary procedures and signs of diseases that are difficult to understand from written descriptions alone.
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New and Updated Information: The book includes new coverage of the latest information and trends, such as epilepsy, aerodigestive disorders, patient triage and stabilization, enteric protozoal diseases, pulmonary thromboembolism, point-of-care ultrasounds, and immunodeficiencies.
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Clinical Tools: More than 200 clinical algorithms aid in disease identification and decision-making. The eBook also offers more than 250 client information sheets that may be downloaded, customized, and printed as client handouts.
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Ebook Access: The eBook version is included with the purchase of the print book, allowing you to access all the text, figures, and references, with the ability to search, customize content, make notes and highlights, and have content read aloud. The eBook also offers the complete collection of original video clips, heart sounds, client information sheets, and hyperlinking of references to their source abstracts.
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Expert Contributors: Expert contributors from around the world provide practical insight into the latest advances and issues affecting small animal medicine.
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Customizable Resources: New PDFs in "Procedures & Techniques" chapters include a printable pull list of the equipment and materials needed for specific procedures, with check boxes.
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New Topics: Additional new material is included on nutritional cardiomyopathy, coronavirus infections, host-microbial interactions in gastrointestinal health, and autonomic nervous system disorders.