Small animal surgery

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!

Preceded by Small animal surgery / [edited by] Theresa Welch Fossum ; Laura Pardi Duprey, Theodore G. Huff, medical illustrators. 4th ed. 2013.

Part 1: General surgical principles. Principles of surgical asepsis -- Care and handling of surgical equipment and supplies -- Surgical facilities and maintenance of the surgical environment -- Preoperative and intraoperative care of the surgical patient -- Preparation of the operative site -- Preparation of the surgical team -- Surgical instrumentation -- Biomaterials, suturing and suture patterns -- Surgical infections and antibiotic selection -- Nutritional management of the surgical patient -- Fundamentals of physical rehabilitation -- Principles of anesthesia and anesthetics -- Pain management and acupuncture -- Principles of minimally invasive surgery and regenerative medicine -- Part II: Soft tissue surgery. Surgery of the integumentary system -- Surgery of the eye -- Surgery of the ear -- Surgery of the digestive system -- Surgery of the liver -- Surgery of the extrahepatic biliary system -- Surgery of the endocrine system -- Surgery of the hemolymphatic system -- Surgery of the kidney and ureter -- Surgery of the bladder and urethra -- Surgery of the reproductive and genital systems -- Surgery of the cardiovascular system -- Surgery of the upper respiratory system -- Surg…