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Essential Calculations for Veterinary Nurses and Technicians 4th Edition

De: Terry Lake, Nicola Green
ISBN: 9780702084010
2022, Elsevier
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Páginas: 240

  • Learn to easily master the types of veterinary nursing calculations you will face on the job with Essential Calculations for Veterinary Nurses and Technicians, 4th Edition. From basic arithmetic to dilutions and statistics, this useful text covers all aspects of calculations as applied to veterinary nursing. Readers will benefit from the text’s common-sense approach to clinical situations and complete the book knowing how to use calculations to determine dosage rates, anesthetic flow rates, radiography exposure rates, parenteral nutrition, and more. User-friendly features include simple language, detailed explanations, ample examples, and special author guidance so that content is easy to follow and understand. Plus, the text’s abundance of learning features — such as self-assessment questions, clinical hints, and tips — help clarify important concepts and ensure that you have mastered everything you need to make calculations in the day-to-day clinical environment.


    New to this edition

    • NEW! Reviewed and updated drugs throughout the book provide dosage calculations that coincide with drugs currently used in the field for the most clinical relevance.
    • NEW! Additional math problems both in the text and on the Evolve companion website offer substantial additional practice. Self-test sections with clinical hints and tips ensure retention of core concepts.


    Key Features

    • Mathematical explanations using veterinary terms present all principles in a manner that directly pertains to the veterinary field.
    • Comprehensive content covers everything from basic arithmetic to dilutions and statistics, so users have everything needed to succeed in calculations for veterinary nursing and technology.
    • Dimensional analysis bridge method removes the necessity of memorizing formulae and takes advantage of simplifying equations so that calculators are often unnecessary.

    • Cover image

    • Title page

    • Table of Contents

    • Evolve Student Resources

    • Copyright

    • Preface

    • Chapter 1. Review of basic maths

    • What is a fraction?

    • What is a decimal?

    • Working with decimals

    • Working with percentages

    • What is scientific notation?

    • Multiple choice questions

    • Answers

    • Chapter 2. Methods of solving for the unknown

    • Ratio and proportion

    • Dimensional analysis

    • Multiple choice questions

    • Answers

    • Chapter 3. Clinical applications of basic principles

    • Questions

    • Use ratio and proportion equations to solve the following

    • Use dimensional analysis to solve the following

    • Answers

    • Multiple choice questions

    • Answers

    • Chapter 4. Measurement systems

    • The metric system

    • Other systems of measure

    • Multiple choice questions

    • Answers

    • Chapter 5. Calculating medication dosages

    • Types of oral medication

    • What is parenteral administration?

    • Reconstituting powders

    • Working with percent concentration

    • Administering insulin

    • Multiple choice questions

    • Answers

    • Chapter 6. Solutions

    • Making weaker solutions from stock solutions

    • Multiple choice questions

    • Answers

    • Chapter 7. Intravenous fluids and constant rate infusions

    • Intravenous fluid administration

    • Constant rate infusions

    • Adding drugs to i.v. fluids

    • Multiple choice questions

    • Answers

    • Chapter 8. Dilutions

    • What is a dilution?

    • Dilution series

    • Serial dilutions

    • Immunology applications

    • Microbiology applications

    • Haematology applications

    • Haemocytometers

    • Clinical problems using dilutions

    • Multiple choice questions

    • Answers

    • Chapter 9. Anaesthesia, radiology and nutrition applications

    • Anaesthesia gas flow rates

    • Radiology calculations

    • Nutritional calculations

    • Multiple choice questions

    • Answers

    • Chapter 10. Statistics and quality control

    • Measures of central tendency

    • Normal distribution

    • Statistics and quality control

    • Multiple choice questions

    • Answers

    • Index

  • Terry Lake

    Affiliations and expertise

    Instructor, Animal Health Technology, Faculty of Science, Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada

    Nicola Green

    Affiliations and expertise

    Lecturer in Veterinary Nursing and Internal Verifier, Northumbria School of Veterinary Nursing, Newcastle College, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK

Veterinary Clinics of North America
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