Small Animal Emergency & Critical Care Medicine: Self-Assessment Color Review PDF

Preface

It's 2AM and you have just finished a gastropexy on a standard poodle that is now experiencing ventricular premature contractions. The diabetic cat that has insulin overdose is beginning to twitch and there is a male orange-and-white cat waiting to have its urethra unblocked. Your technician relays to you that there are four different animals on their way in to see you: two hit by cars, one near drowning, and one big dog–little dog fight. Your catecholamines are at an all-time high. This is why you love your work!

The Self-Assessment Color Review of Small Animal Emergency and Critical Care Medicine provides a challenging and entertaining mechanism for expanding medical and surgical skills in this specialty. Over 20 veterinarians have been selected to contribute to this text. Most authors are diplomates of the American College of Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care, and the others are highly respected veterinarians practicing state-of-the-art emergency medicine from countries around the world. The cases and questions presented demonstrate important principles and provide pearls from experience intended to contribute to successful patient management.

The reader is encouraged to work alone or with a group of colleagues and test their skills. Read the case history and prepare your answer before reading the suggestions from the authors. We present what we believe is our best answer. However, there is often more than one technique for carrying out a procedure or more than one approach to diagnosing and treating a patient. We hope you are stimulated to study physiology, internal medicine, surgery, and emergency medicine texts for more complete explanations and additional therapeutic options.

Medicine, surgery, anesthesia, clinical pathology, radiology, neurology, cardiology ... you have to know it all in emergency and critical care medicine. The right decision must be made at the right time. The staff and equipment must be in readiness for multiple animals with any possible crisis. The ups and downs of this specialty will remind you of a high speed roller coaster ride.

So, sit down, buckle up ... and get ready for the ride of your life!