• Feline Emergency and Critical Care Medicine

    A concise and practical quick reference for veterinary practitioners dealing with feline emergencies

    The updated Second Edition of Feline Emergency and Critical Care Medicine delivers a practical guide for veterinary practitioners dealing with injured or ill cats.

    The book focuses on clinically oriented information tailored to a fast-paced emergency setting. Perfect as a quick reference—with a concise outline format designed to facilitate immediate access to critical information—this edition of the popular book emphasizes the skillful and informed management of feline veterinary emergencies.

    The new edition of Feline Emergency and Critical Care Medicine also includes:

    • A thorough introduction to veterinary approaches to the care of critically ill cat, cardiopulmonary-cerebral resuscitation, shock, and trauma
    • Comprehensive explorations of anesthetic protocols for systemically healthy cats and pain management in critically ill feline patients
    • Practical discussions of general approaches to neurologic emergencies, including those involving the brain, spinal cord, and peripheral organs
    • In-depth examinations of a wide variety of emergency surgical procedures, including gastrointestinal, urinary, and other surgeries

    Feline Emergency and Critical Care Medicine, Second Edition is an invaluable resource for feline and small animal veterinary practitioners and emergency and critical care specialists.

  • 1. Approach to the Critically Ill Cat

    2. Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR)

    3. Shock

    4. Trauma

    5. Anesthesia for Critically Ill Feline Patient

    6. Anesthetic Protocols For Systemically Healthy Cats

    7. Analgesia in the Critically Ill Cat

    8. Fluid Therapy

    9. Nutritional Support for the Critically Ill Feline Patient

    10. Respiratory Emergencies and Pleural Space Disease

    11. Upper Airway Disease

    12. Lower Airway Disease

    13. Parenchymal Disease

    14. Approach to Diagnosis and Treatment of Feline Cardiac Emergencies

    15. Management of Specific Cardiac Diseases

    16. Management of Thromboembolic Disease Secondary to Heart Failure

    17. Arrhythmias

    18. General Approach to the Acute Abdomen

    19. Diagnostic Evaluation of Gastrointestinal Conditions

    20. Management of Specific Gastrointestinal Conditions

    21. Urologic Emergencies – General Approach: Diagnostic Evaluation, Monitoring, and

    Therapeutic Techniques for the Urological System

    22. Urologic Emergencies: Ureters, Bladder, Urethra, GN, and CKD

    23. Acute Kidney Injury

    24. General Approach and Overview of the Neurologic Cat

    25. Neurologic Emergencies: Brain

    26. Neurologic Emergencies: Spinal Cord

    27. Neurologic Emergencies: Peripheral

    28. Hematologic Emergencies: Bleeding

    29. Hematologic Emergencies: Anemia

    30. Management of Specific Endocrine and Metabolic Diseases: Diabetes Mellitus

    31. Management of Specific Endocrine and Metabolic Disease: Other

    32. Electrolyte Disorders

    33. Reproductive Emergencies

    34. Pediatric Emergencies

    35. Feline Geriatric Emergencies

    36. Ocular Emergencies

    37. Dermatologic Emergencies

    38. Toxicological Emergencies

    39. Environmental Emergencies

    40. Common Technical Procedures in the ER

    41. Creating a minimal stress emergency environment

    42. Surgical Section

    42.1 Emergency Gastrointestinal Surgery

    42.2 Emergency Urinary Surgery

    42.3 Emergency Hepatobiliary Surgery

    42.4 Emergency Reproductive Surgery

    42.5 Emergency Traumatic and Reconstructive Surgery

    42.6 Emergency Ophthalmic Surgery

  • Kenneth J. Drobatz

    Is Professor and Chief of Critical Care and Director of the Emergency Service at the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.

    Erica Reineke

    Is Associate Professor in the Section of Critical Care at the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.

    Merilee F. Costello

    Is a Critical Care Specialist at a Private Specialty Hospital.

    William T. N. Culp

    Is Professor at the University of California School of Veterinary Medicine in Davis, California, USA.

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