Description
Learn to treat a wide variety of small mammals and pocket pets with Ferrets, Rabbits, and Rodents: Clinical Medicine and Surgery, 4th Edition. Covering the conditions most often seen in veterinary practice, this highly readable and easy-to-navigate text covers preventative medicine along with disease management, ophthalmology, dentistry, and zoonosis. More than 700 full-color photographs and illustrations highlight radiographic interpretation as well as diagnostic, surgical, and therapeutic techniques. This fourth edition also features new coverage of degus (large rodent species); new coverage of prairie dogs; and expanded coverage of surgical procedures, physical therapy rehabilitation and alternative medicine for rabbits, neoplasia in rabbits, and zoonotic disease. With expert contributors from around the globe, this resource is the authoritative, single point of reference for small mammal care that is hard to find elsewhere. Key features include: – Logical organization lays out sections by different animals and organizes parts within chapters by body system ― making it quick and easy to access important information; – drug formulary provides dosage instructions for a wealth of species including ferrets, rabbits, guinea pigs, chinchillas, hamsters, rats/mice, prairie dogs, hedgehogs, and sugar gliders; – More than 700 photographs and illustrations highlight key concepts such as radiographic interpretation and the main points of diagnostic, surgical, and therapeutic techniques. 656 p.
- Katherine E. Quesenberry. DVM, MPH, Dip.ABVP (Avian), Service Head Avian and Exotic Pet Service, Chief Medical Officer. The Animal Medical Center, New York, NY (USA).
- Connie J. Orcutt. DVM, Dip.ABVP (Exotic Companion Mammal). Brookline, MA (USA).
- Christophe Mans. DVM, Dip.ACZM, Dip.ECZM (Zoo Health Management), Clinical Associate Professor. School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI (USA).
- Publication date (digital version): 2020-06 – Saunders; Copyright © 2021 by Elsevier, Inc.
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