Practical Emergency and Critical Care Veterinary Nursing (Paperback)

Preface vi

1 Triage and Assessment of the Emergency Patient 1

2 Monitoring the Critical Patient 9

3 Vascular Access 17

4 ‘Shock’ and Intravenous Fluid Therapy 29

5 Blood Gas, Acid–Base Analysis and Electrolyte Abnormalities 41

6 Analgesia and Anaesthesia of the Emergency and Critical Patient 52

7 Practical Laboratory Techniques 63

8 Techniques for Oxygen Supplementation 76

9 Nursing the Dyspnoeic Patient 86

10 Nursing the Cardiac Patient 97

11 Nursing the Acute Abdomen Patient 109

12 Nursing Urinary Tract Emergencies 123

13 Nursing the Poisoned Patient 133

14 Nursing the Trauma Patient 144

15 Nursing the Reproductive Patient 155

16 Small Animal Critical Care and Hospitalised Patient Nutrition 163

17 Nursing the Emergency Ophthalmology Patient 181

18 Cardiopulmonary Arrest and Resuscitation 189

19 Nursing Considerations in the Critical Patient 198

Index 209