Feline Emergency and Critical Care Medicine, 2nd Edition

Kenneth J. Drobatz (Editor), Erica Reineke (Editor), Merilee F. Costello (Editor), William T. N. Culp (Editor)
ISBN: 9781119565871
July 2022
Wiley-Blackwell
576 Pages

Description

A concise and practical quick reference for veterinary practitioners dealing with feline emergencies

The updated Second Edition of Feline Emergency and Critical Care Medicine delivers a practical guide for veterinary practitioners dealing with injured or ill cats.

The book focuses on clinically oriented information tailored to a fast-paced emergency setting. Perfect as a quick reference—with a concise outline format designed to facilitate immediate access to critical information—this edition of the popular book emphasizes the skillful and informed management of feline veterinary emergencies.

The new edition of Feline Emergency and Critical Care Medicine also includes:

• A thorough introduction to veterinary approaches to the care of critically ill cat, cardiopulmonary-cerebral resuscitation, shock, and trauma
• Comprehensive explorations of anesthetic protocols for systemically healthy cats and pain management in critically ill feline patients
• Practical discussions of general approaches to neurologic emergencies, including those involving the brain, spinal cord, and peripheral organs
• In-depth examinations of a wide variety of emergency surgical procedures, including gastrointestinal, urinary, and other surgeries

Feline Emergency and Critical Care Medicine, Second Edition is an invaluable resource for feline and small animal veterinary practitioners and emergency and critical care specialists.

Table of contents

1. Approach to the Critically Ill Cat

2. Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR)

3. Shock

4. Trauma

5. Anesthesia for Critically Ill Feline Patient

6. Anesthetic Protocols For Systemically Healthy Cats

7. Analgesia in the Critically Ill Cat

8. Fluid Therapy

9. Nutritional Support for the Critically Ill Feline Patient

10. Respiratory Emergencies and Pleural Space Disease

11. Upper Airway Disease

12. Lower Airway Disease

13. Parenchymal Disease

14. Approach to Diagnosis and Treatment of Feline Cardiac Emergencies

15. Management of Specific Cardiac Diseases

16. Management of Thromboembolic Disease Secondary to Heart Failure

17. Arrhythmias

18. General Approach to the Acute Abdomen

19. Diagnostic Evaluation of Gastrointestinal Conditions

20. Management of Specific Gastrointestinal Conditions

21. Urologic Emergencies – General Approach: Diagnostic Evaluation, Monitoring, and Therapeutic Techniques for the Urological System

22. Urologic Emergencies: Ureters, Bladder, Urethra, GN, and CKD

23. Acute Kidney Injury

24. General Approach and Overview of the Neurologic Cat

25. Neurologic Emergencies: Brain

26. Neurologic Emergencies: Spinal Cord

27. Neurologic Emergencies: Peripheral

28. Hematologic Emergencies: Bleeding

29. Hematologic Emergencies: Anemia

30. Management of Specific Endocrine and Metabolic Diseases: Diabetes Mellitus

31. Management of Specific Endocrine and Metabolic Disease: Other

32. Electrolyte Disorders

33. Reproductive Emergencies

34. Pediatric Emergencies

35. Feline Geriatric Emergencies

36. Ocular Emergencies

37. Dermatologic Emergencies

38. Toxicological Emergencies

39. Environmental Emergencies

40. Common Technical Procedures in the ER

41. Creating a minimal stress emergency environment

42. Surgical Section
42.1 Emergency Gastrointestinal Surgery
42.2 Emergency Urinary Surgery
42.3 Emergency Hepatobiliary Surgery
42.4 Emergency Reproductive Surgery
42.5 Emergency Traumatic and Reconstructive Surgery
42.6 Emergency Ophthalmic Surgery

About the Author

Kenneth J. Drobatz is Professor and Chief of Critical Care and Director of the Emergency Service at the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.

Erica Reineke is Associate Professor in the Section of Critical Care at the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.

Merilee F. Costello is a Critical Care Specialist at a Private Specialty Hospital.

William T. N. Culp is Professor at the University of California School of Veterinary Medicine in Davis, California, USA.