"Master the veterinary technician's role and skills in surgical assisting! Small Animal Surgical Nursing, 4th Edition helps you learn the protocols and techniques you need to work together with the veterinarian as a smoothly functioning surgical team. Clear guidelines are provided in areas such as surgical instruments and procedures, anesthesia, patient monitoring, preoperative and postoperative care of the animals, pain management, and client education. This edition is updated throughout and includes timed instrument identification exercises on the Evolve website. Written by well-known educator Marianne Tear, this comprehensive resource ensures that you are highly competent in performing all of the vet tech's surgical responsibilities"--
Covering the veterinary technician's role and responsibilities in small animal surgery, Small Animal Surgical Nursing: Skills and Concepts, 2nd Edition helps you gain exceptional clinical competency. Topics include asepsis, operating room protocol, instrumentation, sterile technique, suture materials, suturing techniques, wound management, surgical assistance, and pre- and postoperative care of animals. Full-color photographs show instruments and equipment, and help you develop skills in sterile technique, suturing techniques, and wound management. Written by noted educator Marianne Tear, this edition expands coverage of emerging issues and hot topics such as nutritional therapy and physical therapy. Complete coverage of small animal surgical nursing describes the roles and responsibilities of the veterinary technician. A focus on exceptional clinical skills and practice tips helps you gain clinical competency in small animal surgical technique. Clear, full-color photographs show instruments, equipment, sterile technique, suturing techniques, and wound management. Performance objectives at the beginning of each chapter and key points and review questions at the end of each chapter focus and reinforce learning. Practical appendices make it easy to look up dosage calculations, how to quickly set IV fluid drip rates, and how to make up various solutions of medications for constant rate infusions. More than a dozen new illustrated procedures are added to this edition. More real-world examples and best practices are added. Common complications are described for each surgical procedure, with discussions of how to avoid or prepare for these situations. A consistent organization discusses each surgery in terms of pre-op considerations, patient positioning and prep, equipment, the tech's role, and common complications. Instructions follow the order of the procedure: sterilization and gloving and gowning are located in Chapter 1. More rationales are included, covering topics such as different methods of sterilization and catheter placement. Increased coverage of nutritional therapy and physical therapy is added to the chapter on postoperative care. Key terms, chapter outlines, review questions, and a glossary make learning easier. The companion Evolve website includes instrument identification exercises and other workbook-like study activities.
Master the veterinary technician's role and skills in surgical assisting! Small Animal Surgical Nursing, 4th Edition helps you learn the protocols and techniques you need to work together with the veterinarian as a smoothly functioning surgical team. Clear guidelines are provided in areas such as surgical instruments and procedures, anesthesia, patient monitoring, preoperative and postoperative care of the animals, pain management, and client education. This edition is updated throughout and includes timed instrument identification exercises on the Evolve website. Written by well-known educator Marianne Tear, this comprehensive resource ensures that you are highly competent in performing all of the vet tech's surgical responsibilities. Coverage of small animal surgical nursing provides a full review of the role and responsibilities of the veterinary technician in the surgical setting, including sterilization, protocols, gowning, gloving, anesthesia, wound management, and care of the animals before and after surgery. Focus on exceptional clinical skills and practice tips draws from the author's real-world experiences of what is most commonly encountered in the clinical setting. Nearly 500 full-color illustrations and photographs show surgical equipment, instruments, sterile techniques, suturing techniques, and wound management. Attention to detail ensures understanding of the skills covered in required veterinary technician surgical nursing courses. Learning Objectives and Key Terms at the beginning of each chapter identify the material that should be mastered in the upcoming chapter. Key Points and Review Questions at the end of each chapter facilitate study and reinforce understanding. Quick Reference for Common IV Infusions and Analgesic Protocols appendix helps students learn to work quickly and efficiently. NEW! Updated content and new protocols and skills ensure that students have the latest information available. NEW! Updated and additional Review Questions include multiple-choice, listing, and open-ended questions that challenge students to apply the knowledge they have learned in each chapter.
Small Animal Internal Medicine for Veterinary Technicians and Nurses is the first comprehensive resource on internal medicine written for the veterinary technician. Organized by body system, each chapter discusses pertinent diseases, from clinical signs, diagnostic testing, and prevalence to treatment options and nursing considerations. Published in association with the Academy of Internal Medicine for Veterinary Technicians, this book offers both a thorough grounding in the foundations of internal medicine for students and new veterinary technicians and detailed, advanced information suitable for experienced veterinary technicians. Coverage includes an overview of neurological disorders and discussion of the surgical, emergency, and nursing considerations for each condition. This complete reference, which includes a companion website with quizzes, images, and video clips, is essential reading for veterinary technician students, practicing technicians, and those studying for the AIMVT specialty exam.
This new volume of the collection Small animal surgery is a selection of the main surgical procedures explained in the previous volumes. The greatest asset of this book is that it is based on high-quality videos, which accompany each of the surgical techniques. These are classified according to degree of difficulty. This book is the result of the authors thorough and careful work and is an essential resource both for veterinary professionals in practice and students of veterinary surgery.
This text covers the principles and practice of asepsis, the most efficient layout and working of the surgical area, the principles of surgery, particularly those related to wound healing and the most common procedures a nurse would carry out.
This is a Pageburst digital textbook; the product description may vary from the print textbook. This unique resource provides detailed coverage of the veterinary technician's role in small animal surgery. Topics include asepsis, operating room protocol, instrumentation, sterile technique, suture materials, suturing techniques, wound management, surgical assistance, and pre and postoperative care of animals. All information reflects the latest developments in drugs, instruments, equipment, and techniques. Provides complete coverage of small animal surgical nursing as it relates to the roles and responsibilities of the veterinary technician Focuses on key clinical skills, practice tips, patient care, and client education Written by veterinary technology educators and authorities on veterinary surgical nursing Lavishly illustrated with new color photographs of instruments, equipment, sterile technique, suturing techniques, and wound management Addresses the surgical and community service perspectives of feral cat spay/neuter clinics, including the challenges to veterinary technicians because of the high numbers of surgeries performed in a short time period, dealing with feral cats, and the absence of postoperative follow-up care Provides performance objectives at the beginning of each chapter, as well as key points and review questions at the end of each chapter to focus and reinforce learning Features practical appendices of dosage calculations, how to quickly set IV fluid drip rates, and how to make up various solutions of medications for constant rate infusions
Rabbit Medicine and Surgery for Veterinary Nurses incorporates everything you need to know about caring for rabbits in a highly accessible style. It is the first book devoted to the care of both sick and healthy rabbits from a nursing perspective. This exciting book contains all of the most crucial information about rabbits, including a brief natural history and chapters on nutrition, behaviour and medical and surgical nursing. It examines key areas in detail and explores emerging concepts. Recent trends show that rabbits are fast becoming one of the most popular mammalian pets. The role of nursing has also evolved in recent years. Veterinary nurses now have more involvement and responsibility for the care of their patients. This book reflects these new developments in both its approach and contents. Special features: * Written by two experts in the field with a wealth of experience of treating rabbits, as well as educating veterinary nurses. * Includes innovative chapters on rabbit clinics, owner education and evidence-based veterinary medicine. * Contains a section with rich colour illustrations.
Small Animal Surgical Emergencies is a practical reference to soft tissue and orthopedic emergencies commonly encountered in small animal practice. • Covers common soft tissue and orthopedic emergencies • Provides step-by-step procedures for stabilizing and operating on the emergent patient • Promotes problem-solving through algorithms and case studies • Depicts the concepts described using radiographs, ultrasounds, contrast studies, and photographs • Includes access to a companion website with video clips, case studies, and images
