Equine Colic, An Issue of Veterinary Clinics of North America: Equine Practice 1st Edition

• Cover image

• Title page

• Table of Contents

• Copyright

• Contributors

• Forthcoming Issues

• Preface

• Epidemiology of Colic: Current Knowledge and Future Directions

• Key points

• Introduction

• Population studies and “big data”

• Economics and affordability of care

• The human element

• Colic prevention

• Decision making concerning likely diagnosis and treatment

• Summary

• Clinics care points

• Disclosure

• Funding

• Updates on Diagnosis and Management of Colic in the Field and Criteria for Referral

• Key points

• Introduction

• The equine primary care practitioner’s role in colic triage

• Objective and effective colic triage

• Bladder and lateral ligaments of the bladder

• Pelvic flexure of the ascending (large) colon

• Small colon and fecal balls

• Left kidney and spleen

• Root of the mesentery and central abdomen

• Cecal tenia

• Management decisions following triage

• Analgesic options for colic cases

• Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs

• Nonselective COX inhibitors

• Selective COX-2 inhibitors

• Nontraditional nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs

• Clinics care points

• Disclosure

• Abdominal Sonographic Evaluation: In the Field, at the Hospital, and After Surgery

• Key points

• Introduction

• Small intestinal strangulated versus nonstrangulated obstruction

• Visualization of colonic mesenteric vessels

• Severely thickened large intestine

• Sand impactions and enteropathy

• Left dorsal displacement of the large colon with or without nephrosplenic ligament entrapment

• Postoperative monitoring

• Summary

• Disclosure

• Early Identification of Intestinal Strangulation: Why It Is Important and How to Make an Early Diagnosis

• Key points

• How to make an early diagnosis

• Summary

• Clinics care points

• Disclosure

• Current Topics in Medical Colic

• Key points

• Gastric impaction

• Equine gastric glandular disease

• Inflammatory bowel disease

• Colon displacement

• Colic Surgery: Recent Updates

• Key points

• Introduction

• New approaches and techniques

• Reemerging or new diseases

• Techniques aimed at prevention or recurrence

• Updates on prognosis

• Summary

• Clinics care points

• Disclosure

• Basic Postoperative Care of the Equine Colic Patient

• Key points

• Monitoring

• Antimicrobial use

• Analgesia

• Fluid therapy

• Postoperative nutrition

• Miscellaneous therapeutics

• Economics

• Expectations of normal recovery and return to use

• Clinics care points

• Disclosure

• Critical Care of the Colic Patient: Monitoring, Fluid Therapy, and More

• Key points

• Advances in monitoring

• Advances in fluid therapy

• Advances in nutrition management

• Pharmacotherapeutics

• Summary

• Clinics care points

• Disclosures

• Funding sources

• Conflict of interest

• When Things Do Not Go As Planned: Update on Complications and Impact on Outcome

• Key points

• Introduction

• Post-operative ileus

• Adhesions

• Incisional complications

• Post-operative diarrhea

• Other complications

• Summary

• Disclosure

• Repeat Celiotomy—Current Status

• Key points

• Introduction

• Indications for repeat celiotomy

• Timing of repeat celiotomy

• Teamwork for repeat celiotomy

• Approach and exploration

• Typical findings

• Treatments at repeat celiotomy

• Expected response to repeat celiotomy

• Complications and survival rates

• When to stop

• Summary—small intestinal surgery

• Large intestine

• Disclosure

• Role of Laparoscopy in Diagnosis and Management of Equine Colic

• Key points

• Introduction

• Systematic laparoscopic visualization of the equine abdomen

• Intestinal biopsy and treatment of small intestinal lesions

• Nephrosplenic entrapment of the ascending colon and closure of the nephrosplenic space

• Epiploic foramen entrapment and preventive closure of the foramen

• Adhesiolysis

• Suture of mesenteric rents

• Diaphragmatic hernia

• Clinics care points

• Disclosure

• Supplementary data

• Neonates and Periparturient Mares: Tips and Tricks for Diagnosis and Management

• Key points

• Introduction

• Neonates

• Summary

• Clinics care points

• What Is the Microbiota and What Is Its Role in Colic?

• Key points

• Introduction to the microbiome

• Summary

• Disclosure

• Recurrent Colic: Diagnosis, Management, and Expectations

• Key points

• Introduction/definitions

• Primary recurrent colic

• Recurrent colic after surgery

• Clinics care points

• Disclosure

Louise L. Southwood

Affiliations and expertise

Professor, Large Animal Emergency and Critical Care, New Bolton Center, University of Pennsylvania