Full Description
A Practical Guide to Canine and Feline Neurology provides students and clinicians with the tools necessary to understand and be clinically proficient with neurology cases faced in small animal practice. Highlights of the Second Edition include new coverage of breed predisposition, signalment and history, spinal disorders, and expanded coverage of pain management and diagnostic imaging. Designed as a user-friendly guide, practitioners, specialists, and students alike will enjoy the book's practical and clinically relevant approach.
Contents
Chapter 1. Patient Signalment and HistoryChapter 2. Functional and Dysfunctional Neuroanatomy: The Key to Lesion Localization. Chapter 3. Performing the Neurologic Examination. Chapter 4. Neurodiagnostics. . Chapter 5. Encephalopathies: Disorders of the Brain. Chapter 6. Head Trauma Management. Chapter 7. Seizures and Narcolepsy. . Chapter 8. Disorders of Hearing and Balance: The Vestibulocochlear Nerve (CN VIII) and Associated Structures. . Chapter 9. Cerebellar Diseases and Tremor Syndromes. . Chapter 10. Myelopathies: Disorders of the Spinal Cord. Chapter 11. Disorders of the Cauda Equina. Chapter 12. Spinal Trauma Management. Chapter 13. Neurology and Neuropharmacology of Normal and Abnormal Urination. Chapter 14. Disorders of the Peripheral Nervous System: Mononeuropathies and Polyneuropathies. Chapter 15. Myopathies: Disorders of Skeletal Muscle. . Chapter 16. Junctionopathies: Disorders of the Neuromuscular Junction. Chapter 17. Nursing Care and Physical Therapy for Patients with Neurologic Disease. Chapter 18. Pharmacologic Management of Pain for Patients with Neurologic Disease. . Chapter 19. Complementary and Alternative Therapy for Patients with Neurologic Disease. . Chapter 20. Neurotoxicological Syndromes. Appendix: Color Atlas of Canine Brain Anatomy
