Nutrition and Disease Management for Veterinary Technicians and Nurses

By Ann Wortinger, Kara Burns, Kara M. Burns

Nutrition and Disease Management for Veterinary Technicians and Nurses, Second Edition offers a thorough update and significant expansion of this easy-to-use introduction to veterinary nutrition and diet, with broader species coverage, a new section on nutritional management of disease, and many new chapters. - Provides a complete reference to veterinary nutrition, from the fundamentals to feeding companion animals of any age and health status - Adds information on nutrition in birds, small mammals, and horses to the existing dog and cat coverage - - Presents a new section on managing disease through nutrition, with 10 new disease chapters - Offers additional new chapters on nutritional calculations, types of pet foods, raw food diets, additives and preservatives, nutrition myths, nutritional support, and assisted feeding - Includes access to a companion website with case studies, review questions and answers, and the figures from the book in PowerPoint

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1118509277
• ISBN13: 9781118509272
• Release Date: June 2015
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.4" x 9.6"