Emergency Procedures for the Small Animal Veterinarian

By Signe J. Plunkett

Book Overview

The second edition of the hugely successful Emergency Procedures for the Small Animal Veterinarian gives vets all the information they need to form a diagnosis quickly and accurately, establish a prognosis and recommend treatment for a patient suffering an illness, injury or toxic event.

Easy-to-read bullet-point text gives quick access to the most essential information needed to treat emergency cases quickly and efficiently. Extensive practical appendices provide easy reference to essential data including commonly used drugs and supplements, drugs in special circumstances (e.g. safe drugs in pregnancy, drugs to avoid in renal failure etc), clinical chemistry and laboratory data, conversion tables and much more.

With step-by-step coverage of cardiopulmonary emergencies, trauma gastrointestinal emergencies, toxicological events, a greatly expanded chapter on exotic pets, and much more, Emergency Procedures for the Small Animal Veterinarian provides all the facts vets need to help them save more lives faster All vets need to know to manage every small animal emergency case they will encounterMany excellent and practical appendices of drugs, poisons, lab data, haematology and much more
Takes the diagnosis-prognosis-treatment approach to every emergency situationEasy-to-access format, with concise text and lots of lists
Organised by organ systems, making it easy to locate information in a hurryHandy info on what to tell the owner in emergency injury situationsGreatly expanded chapter on toxic emergenciesExpanded information on emergencies in exotic pets
New chapters on telephone triage and preparation of the emergency treatment areaMany new and revised appendices providing a mass of valuable information
New page design and tough vinyl cover (so that this edition will not disintegrate )

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0702024872
• ISBN13: 9780702024870
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Elsevier - Health Sciences Division
• Length: 574 Pages
• Weight: 2.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 1.0" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

Needed for emergency vets

Great book for an emergency practice or just to review the occasional emergency problem. Definitely worth buying. Also, worth updating from the first edition.

This is THE Emergency Book to Own

Practical, concise and to the point, easy to find what you need and reasonably priced. Need I say more?

Just get it!

I had the first edition; it was very good. This is a different book; much better. Tiny letters, no drawings, 574 pages, information on virtually every emergency you can think of. And good information, right to the point, no words wasted. It reviews 99 emergency syndromes in dogs or cats, 40 intoxications, and emergencies in 14 different exotic pets (including fish). Every item includes at least diagnosis, prognosis , and treatment, and has all the details and alternatives that you may need in an emergency situation. There is a certain amount af repetition but this allows one to use any chapter with complete independence from the others (that is what you want in an emergency). Not all syndromes may be real emergencies, but all need some quick medical response, and this books makes them easier and (I am sure) better. When I face an emergency, just feeling this book next to me is reassuring. Bravo, Signe, you wrote a great book and made a big favor to our profession!

The best of the best

This book represents a milestone for small animal emergencies. When you have a dog or a cat dying in front of you, there is no time for complicated explanations, you need an answer RIGHT AWAY!!! This book -believe it or not- is very fun to read, I read the whole thing in 3 or 4 days. I greatly recommend it !!!

I've worn this book out!

Almost every day someone in the practice grabs this book from the shelf and invariably it contains the information they require. It is practical, accurate and concise - not much point in an emergency book which takes 20 pages to cover each topic! It lives in the real world repeatedly pointing out that it might be advisable to inform clients about cost and prognosis before going ahead with risky and expensive procedures. And there is so much more than emergency procedures in here - lists of drug dosages, brief overviews of exotic animals, fomulae - and every topic in short sharp style. I'll soon buy a new one as my current copy is stuck with tape and held together by an elastic band. Not ten out of ten though - it could usefully be published in a more robust form