Small animal critical care medicine

Small Animal Critical Care Medicine is a comprehensive, concise guide to critical care, encompassing not only triage and stabilization, but also the entire course of care during the acute medical crisis and high-risk period. This clinically oriented manual assists practitioners in providing the highest standard of care for ICU patients. More than 150 recognized experts offer in-depth, authoritative guidance on clinical situations from a variety of perspectives. Consistent, user-friendly format ensures immediate access to essential information.Organ-system, problem-based approach incorporates only clinically relevant details. Features state-of-the-art invasive and non-invasive diagnostic and monitoring procedures, as well as an extensive section on pharmacology. Appendices provide conversion tables, continuous rate infusion determinations, reference ranges, and more.

Part I : Assessment and Triage -- 1. Physical examination -- 2. Patient triage -- 3. Survival prediction index -- Part II : Frequently Encountered Problems in the Intensive Care Unit -- 4. Cardiopulmonary resuscitation -- 5. Fever -- 6. Hypotension -- 7. Oliguria -- 8. Deteriorating mental status -- 9. Tachypnea and hypoxemia -- 10. Shock -- 11. Systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS) -- 12. Nosocomial infections and zoonoses -- 13. Enteral nutrition -- 14. Parenteral nutrition -- Part III : Respiratory Disorders -- 15. Respiratory failure -- 16. Upper airway disease -- 17. Endotracheal intubation -- 18. Tracheostomy -- 19. Oxygen therapy -- 20. Allergic airway disease and asthma -- 21. Pulmonary edema -- 22. Pneumonia -- 23. Aspiration pneumonitis and pneumonia -- 24. Acute lung injury and acute respiratory distress syndrome -- 25. Pulmonary contusions and hemorrhage -- 26. Ventilator associated lung injury -- 27. Pulmonary thromboembolism -- 28. Smoke inhalation -- 29. Atelectasis -- 30. Pleural space disease -- 31. Thoracocentesis -- 32. Thoracostomy tube placement and drainage -- 33. Chest wall disease -- 34. Non-respiratory 3look-alikes4 -- Part IV : Cardiovascular Dis…