Practical Emergency and Critical Care Veterinary Nursing

Your step-by-step guide to key emergency and critical care procedures and hands-on nursing care. Whether you need to know how to prioritise your response to a patient with multiple injuries, or you need a quick practical guide to fluid therapy, this is the go-to resource. Colour photographs of real life cases take you through the procedures and after-care, detailing essential skills. This book provides vital information for emergency and critical care situations, whether you re looking for confidence in handling emergency cases in a first-opinion practice, or a relevant, succinct guide for an emergency clinic. Be inspired to become more confident in your clinical skills and abilities, and learn how to apply your existing skills to an emergency situation. A companion website provides additional resources useful in the management of emergency and critical patients. Visit the website to find information charts and video clips of procedures. Written by a veterinary nurse and a veterinary surgeon who work together in the largest UK emergency clinic, this book is a practical, how-to manual with a nursing focus. Suitable as a complete reference for nurses studying towards qualifications, or as a practical guide for daily use by veterinary nurses working in veterinary emergency and critical care.

Your step-by-step guide to key emergency and critical careprocedures and hands-on nursing care. Whether you need to know howto prioritise your response to a patient with multiple injuries, oryou need a quick practical guide to fluid therapy, this is thego-to resource. Colour photographs of real life cases takeyou through the procedures and after-care, detailing essentialskills. This book provides vital information for emergency andcritical care situations, whether you're looking forconfidence in handling emergency cases in a first-opinion practiceor a relevant, succinct guide for an emergency clinic. Beinspired to become more confident in your clinical skills andabilities, and learn how to apply your existing skills to anemergency situation.A companion website provides additional resources useful in themanagement of emergency and critical patients. Visit thewebsite to find information charts and video clips ofprocedures.Written by a veterinary nurse and a veterinary surgeon who worktogether in the largest UK emergency clinic, this book is apractical, how-to manual with a nursing focus.Suitable as a complete reference for nurses studying towardsqualifications, or as a practical guide for daily use by veterinarynurses working in veterinary emergency and critical care.

Preface vi1 Triage and Assessment of the Emergency Patient 12 Monitoring the Critical Patient 93 Vascular Access 174 'Shock' and Intravenous Fluid Therapy 295 Blood Gas, Acid-Base Analysis and ElectrolyteAbnormalities 416 Analgesia and Anaesthesia of the Emergency and CriticalPatient 527 Practical Laboratory Techniques 638 Techniques for Oxygen Supplementation 769 Nursing the Dyspnoeic Patient 8610 Nursing the Cardiac Patient 9711 Nursing the Acute Abdomen Patient 10912 Nursing Urinary Tract Emergencies 12313 Nursing the Poisoned Patient 13314 Nursing the Trauma Patient 14415 Nursing the Reproductive Patient 15516 Small Animal Critical Care and Hospitalised Patient Nutrition16317 Nursing the Emergency Ophthalmology Patient 18118 Cardiopulmonary Arrest and Resuscitation 18919 Nursing Considerations in the Critical Patient 198Index 209