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The use of intravenous access devices is fundamental for all patients needing frequent blood sample collection, artificial nutrition, chemotherapy, antibiotic therapy, and any other intravenous treatment.
This book highlights all the medical aspects that the veterinary practitioner should bear when dealing with a senior feline patient. The key points of each system and disease are addressed clearly. The practical application of the information provided is the book's main asset, always from the perspective of their physiological peculiarities and response to the treatment.
This book deals with the main orthopaedic conditions of the stifle joint in dogs and cats, so veterinary surgeons can assess, diagnose and treat the disorders commonly seen in their practice. It is intended to help veterinary clinicians make a correct diagnosis and prognosis and establish the most appropriate drug or surgical treatment for each case. Orthopaedic pathologies of the stifle joint contains plenty of high-quality images and illustrations as well as links to videos through QR codes, which provide additional information and contribute to making the book even more practical.
Artificial insemination (AI) is an indispensable technique on swine farms, and its success depends primarily on semen quality. This handbook covers the key steps necessary to obtain high-quality processed semen and ensure successful AI. Essential practical considerations are clearly detailed in each chapter.
This book, focused on the most remarkable facts linked to porcine circovirus type 2 (PCV2) and related diseases, places special emphasis on aspects connected with immunity, diagnosis and proper use of vaccines, which have brought about a revolution in the subclinical control of PCV2 since mid/late 2000s due to their great efficacy.
Technical work mainly focused on the management of pig farms working with hyperprolific genetics, which almost completely monopolize the market in this species in both productive and reproductive terms. The author, a renowned experienced specialist in swine genetics, provides key information to facilitate the management of these lines by veterinary professionals.
This innovative book presents the essential aspects of bovine immunology and provides key information about the main vaccine-preventable diseases in cattle and vaccination and disease control procedures. The detailed illustrations and diagrams will help veterinary practitioners consolidate their knowledge in this field.
This atlas is aimed at bovine medicine practitioners to provide them with an easy to use visual reference of the main pathologies and disorders present in this species. A wide range of the most common diseases and disorders of cattle are illustrated, grouped by organic system and anatomic location, along with a brief description of the aetiology and pathology of each. The atlas includes the main disorders of cattle including congenital malformations, skin disorders, gastrointestinal, cardiovascular and respiratory conditions and diseases affecting the locomotor system, the nervous system including the sensory organs and the reproductive apparatus of males and females including the mammary gland.
A visual and instructive book written by experts in the field, which shows readers how to analyse the most important characteristics of lameness and the main measures for its control and optimal prevention.
Handy and rigorous book focused on the diagnosis of the main diseases affecting poultry through a practical and visual approach of the topic, and written by prestigious experts with a wide experience in this field. Each disease has been thoroughly reviewed including the most updated information (clinical signs, gross and microscopic pathology, as well as methods of isolation or detection of the etiologic agent(s) and serologic methods for antibody detection) to better understand the content. Numerous graphic resources (images, graphs, tables, flowcharts) have been included to complement the information provided and make the contents understandable and accessible to readers.
This book aims to introduce veterinary surgeons to a new concept of pain for a better understanding of what pain is and how it occurs. By describing pain pathways and their regulation, as well as the sophisticated therapeutic systems that are currently being developed, this book shows its readers how to interpret pain, and how to identify it as a pathology in itself and treat it as such. The management of chronic pain in companion animals is an area in which there is a significant therapeutic void. In many cases, professionals are unaware of the appropriate approach to managing chronic pain, despite the wide range of pharmacological, surgical, and physical therapy options that act directly on the pain pathways.
Routine preventative dental care is essential to prevent dental and oral health problems in cats. With more than 400 high-quality images, clear anatomical illustrations, and thorough descriptions, this new volume on veterinary dentistry focused exclusively in cats aims at being a guide for quick visual identification and prompt diagnosis and treatment of oral and dental problems in this domestic species.
This handbook about small animal emergency care contains the diagnostic and therapeutic approaches to the most common emergencies seen in small animal practice, classified by organ systems. For each emergency, a definition of the condition that has caused the situation, its causes, the diagnostic approach, and the most appropriate treatment is provided. The goal is to provide an easily accessible quick reference guide to save valuable time during stressful emergency medical cases.
This book addresses the main feline infectious diseases that are usually seen in daily veterinary practice and includes all the existing updates regarding the diagnostic approach and management of these conditions. Its main aim is to provide highly practical information in order to offer a new perspective, different from other textbooks, about the current infectious diseases in cats.
This new atlas focuses on how parasitic diseases can be diagnosed, treated, and prevented, with a special emphasis on those aspects on which pet owners can have an influence. It includes a classification of parasitic diseases according to the organ systems they affect, parasites in exotic animals, and a description of the most important zoonoses transmitted by dogs and cats.
This new volume of the collection Pet Owner Educational Atlas aims to help pet owners gain a better understanding of parasites, always through their veterinary surgeon's explanations and recommendations. It continues with the goal established in the first work: helping veterinarians in their communication with the pet owners when it comes to explaining how a parasitic disease is affecting their pets.
A lo largo de este libro se explicará cuál es la problemática en torno a la resistencia a los antibióticos y se presentarán los datos más relevantes obtenidos hasta la fecha en ganado porcino. El punto de partida será la vigilancia del consumo de antibióticos y de las resistencias a los mismos en bacterias zoonóticas, comensales y patógenas. El análisis de esta información facilitará la caracterización del problema y, en consecuencia, el establecimiento de medidas para un uso prudente de antibióticos, entre las que se incluyen un correcto diagnóstico, la elección del tratamiento, las pautas de aplicación y las alternativas a los antimicrobianos con el fin de preservar su eficacia y seguridad. Además, se incidirá en las medidas adecuadas de bioseguridad, vacunación e higiene.
El objetivo específico de este libro es proporcionar al clínico una guía razonada del enfoque diagnóstico y la realización de retratamientos endodónticos, con el claro deseo de proporcionar todos los elementos discriminatorios para tratar tales operaciones con tranquilidad y experiencia; elementos esenciales para obtener el mejor resultado posible en la salud bucal general del paciente.
La gnatología es la madre de todos los tratamientos dentales. El método Global Occlusion es un enfoque holístico del problema gnatológico, que abarca desde los trastornos de la articulación tem-poro-mandibular a los musculares, pasando por los problemas de otorrinolaringología relacionados con estos hasta los síndromes oculares, cervicales y las cefaleas, todo revisado en esta obra única.
Cirugía urológica del perro y el gato es una ayuda indispensable en el proceso de toma de decisiones que permite elegir el mejor abordaje terapéutico a adoptar en los distintos casos urológicos y nefrológicos. El texto es práctico y fluido, y el lector puede seguir fácilmente el abordaje diagnóstico y quirúrgico de cada tipo de patología.
La completa descripción de las terapia conservadoras y quirúrgicas, las numerosas imágenes y la descripción de los casos clínicos de su última parte hacen de esta obra una herramienta fundamental en la clínica veterinaria de pequeños animales.
Esta guía práctica contiene una biblioteca de técnicas prácticas para probar rápidamente nuevas ideas de negocio. Aprenderás el proceso, diseñarás tu primer experimento y empezarás a probar nuevas ideas de negocio.
Este libro aporta una herramienta sencilla y potente que ayuda a los líderes y miembros de equipos a alinearse y a tener claro quién es exactamente el responsable de cada parte de las actividades y proyectos más importantes del equipo.
Este libro aspira a poder servir de guía a aquellos auxiliares veterinarios que estén interesados, ayudándoles a mejorar sus habilidades de comunicación y de gestión.
