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Handling anaesthesia and monitoring equipment, established anaesthesia protocols, modern pain management, dealing with complications and associated diseases of the patient - profound knowledge in a practical, compact and easy-to-read format.
Benefit from the author's extensive wealth of experience as well as valuable tips and tricks from everyday clinical practice.
Overview: Anaesthesia machine and monitoring equipment systematically explained
Comprehensive: Categorisation by animal species - small and large animals including small mammals, South American camelids and horses
At a glance: The most important drugs with indications, dosages, effects and side effects as well as contraindications and precautions
Tailor made: For veterinarians, veterinary students, interns, residents and veterinary nurses
AnaesthesiaSkills support you from A to Z: from alfaxalone to zenalpha, from apnoea to zeroing the transducer - so that you are well prepared for all eventualities!
Contents
Basics
1 The Anaesthesia Machine
2 Monitoring
3 Stages of general anaesthesia
4 Drugs
Anaesthesia practice
5 Species-specific anaesthesia
6 Physiology and pathophysiology
7 Case management
8 Anaesthetic incidents and complications
9 Pain and pain therapy
10 Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) in small animals
11 Euthanasia
Appendix
12 List of abbreviations
13 Further reading
