Description
Manual of Equine Anesthesia and Analgesia, 2nd Edition, provides practitioners and veterinary students with concise, highly practical guidance to anesthetizing horses, donkeys, and mules. Using a bulleted quick-reference format, this popular resource covers the basic physiological and pharmacological principles of anesthesia, patient preparation and monitoring, and the management of sedation and anesthesia. Chapters written by leading veterinary anesthesiologists contain numerous clinical images and illustrations, case examples, tables, diagrams, and boxed summaries of important points. Now in full color, the second edition features extensively revised and updated information throughout. New sections cover chronic pain, management of horses undergoing MRI, ventilators, nerve blocks for reproductive surgery, muscle relaxants, various new drugs, paravertebral anesthesia, treatment of pain using acupuncture and physical rehabilitation techniques, and more. Up-to-date appendices contain drug lists and dosages as well as equations related to equine cardiovascular and respiratory systems. This ebook remains a must-have resource for all equine practitioners and veterinary students involved with anesthetizing horses. 718 p.
- Tom Doherty, Editor. MVB, MSc, DACVAA. Retired from the College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (USA).
- Alex Valverde, Editor. DVM, DVSc, DACVAA. Ontario Veterinary College, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON (Canada).
- Rachel A. Reed, Editor. DVM, DACVAA. College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Georgia, Athens, GA (USA).
- Publication date (digital version): 2021-11 – Wiley-Blackwell.
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