Practical emergency and critical care veterinary nursing /
Paul Aldridge, Louise O'Dwyer.
- Chichester, West Sussex ; Ames, Iowa : John Wiley & Sons, 2013.
- 217 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 26 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Triage and assessment of emergency patient -- Monitoring critical patients -- Vascular access -- Shock and intravenous fluid therapy -- Blood gas, acid-base analysis, and electrolyte abnormalities -- Analgesia and anaesthesia of the emergency and critical patient -- Practical laboratory techniques -- Techniques for oxygen supplementation -- The dyspnoeic patient -- Nursing the cardiac patient -- Nursing the acute abdomen patient -- Nursing urinary tract emergencies -- Nursing the poisoned patient -- Nursing the trauma patient -- Nursing the reproductive patient -- Small animal critical care and hospitalised patient nutrition -- Nursing the emergency ophthalmology patient -- Cardiopulmonary arrest and resuscitation -- Nursing considerations in the critical patient.