Publisher's Synopsis
This guide describes the pathogenesis, clinical signs, diagnosis and treatment of all the commonly encountered emergencies in small animal veterinary medicine. Practitioners present step-by-step therapeutic measures in the form of emergency protocols and the text includes tables and drug dosage data.;Chapters provide coverage of cardiac emergencies, neurologic emergencies, ocular emergencies, dermatologic emergencies, gastrointestinal emergencies, endocrine metabolic emergencies, and others. Additional practice sections cover urogenital emergencies, respiratory emergencies, shock and musculoskeletal emergencies.