Small Animal Surgery

By Theresa Welch Fossum and Cheryl S. Hedlund

Book Overview

**Selected for Doody's Core Titles(R) 2024 with "Essential Purchase" designation in Veterinary Medicine**

From basic procedures like spays, castrations, and declaws to advanced surgeries like craniotomy, vertal slots, and lung lobectomy, Fossum's Small Animal Surgery, 5th Edition is the go-to, full-color guide for everything that general veterinarians and vet students need to know about both soft tissue and orthopedic surgery. Five editors bring their expert perspective as they discuss the latest advances in key areas such as imaging modalities, regenerative medicine, minimally invasive surgery, and neurology. With each book adoption, you'll also have access to the Expert Consult website, which includes a fully searchable version of the book plus step-by-step video clips and animations of surgical procedures, aftercare instruction handouts, case presentations, references linked to full text articles on PubMed, and an extensive image collection. There is no better resource to keep you up to date on the latest advances and techniques in small animal surgery Well illustrated, step-by-step instructions for surgical techniques provide quick reference to practical how-to information in emergency and clinical situations.Anesthesia Protocols offer easy access to recommendations for anesthetizing animals with particular diseases or disorders.Coverage of cutting-edge imaging techniques, including radiographs, CT, MRI, and digital imaging, explores the most useful imaging modalities for demonstrating areas of surgical concern.Clinical tips boxes provide at-a-glance surgical and practice tips.Postsurgical care instructions provide customizable client aftercare handouts for many of the procedures in the book.Reference links to PubMed grant access to full-text articles. NEW Expanded sections on thoracoscopy, arthroscopy, and laparoscopy reflect the significant growth in minimally invasive procedures in vet medicine. NEW Significantly revised section on joint disease includes additional techniques and procedures. NEW Revised chapter on regenerative medicine emphasizes application of stem cell and regenerative medicine technologies to clinical patients. NEW Increased emphasis on differential diagnosis helps you learn how to avoid misdiagnoses that result in unnecessary surgery with the inclusion of boxes covering disorders that may mimic the more commonly encountered surgical neurologic problems that are not actual disorders requiring surgical repair. NEW Correlation boxes highlight the advances in veterinary medicine that correlate with human medicine. NEW Expanded chapter on neurologic examination cover how to perform a proper neurologic exam to detect problems in cats and dogs. NEW Step-by-step procedure videos that walk through both basic and advanced procedures have been added to this new edition. NEW Aftercare instructions and rarely performed procedures have been added to the Expert Consult.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0323443443
• ISBN13: 9780323443449
• Release Date: June 2018
• Publisher: Mosby
• Length: 1584 Pages
• Weight: 9.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.5" x 8.8" x 11.1"

Customer Reviews

Useful surgical text

This book contains excellent descriptions of most procedures required in general practice. Good diagrams and has a better orthopaedic section than other texts. Should be in library of all general practices.

The standard...

Before my first spay, I watched the demonstration video a few times, read over my spay manual a few times....but reading the procedure over in Fossum upped my confidence in remembering each step. I've used this book to clarify certain procedures mentioned in my classes, and it has helped me so much conceptually. The illustrations are great and provide a great model to accompany the instructions. It's a standard for any vet student!

terrific book

The best surgery book out there. Detailed, full-color drawings give me confidence that I can actually do the procedure. I did my first GDV last week with this book!

Even better than the first edition

A must have for any practitioner. The first edition was great, replacing my 2 volume Slatter's, the second edition is even better! Other authors should learn from this reference, provide the information needed and include terrific pictures and drawings!

Great Book!!

Great Book!! Very useful to the practicing small animal vet for daily reference. The pictures and explainations of procedures are the easiest to understand that I have ever seen.