cover image - Small Animal Endoscopy - Elsevier eBook on VitalSource, 3rd Edition
ISBN: 9780323168281
Copyright: 2011
Publication Date: 12-14-2010
Page Count: 696
Imprint: Mosby
List Price: $163.99

Small Animal Endoscopy - Elsevier eBook on VitalSource, 3rd Edition

by Todd R. Tams, DVM, DACVIM and Clarence A. Rawlings, DVM, PhD, DACVS

Elsevier eBook on VitalSource

cover image - Small Animal Endoscopy - Elsevier eBook on VitalSource, 3rd Edition
ISBN: 9780323168281
Copyright: 2011
Publication Date: 12-14-2010
Page Count: 696
Imprint: Mosby
List Price: $163.99
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The latest edition of the critically acclaimed Small Animal Endoscopy presents informative, practical, and up-to-date guidance on endoscopic indications, instrumentation, patient preparation, and techniques. Todd R. Tams and Clarence A. Rawlings, the foremost experts in veterinary endoscopy, provide the novice as well as the advanced practitioner with the information needed to deliver the safest, high-quality endoscopic services for small animals, including avian and exotics. Chapters are organized consistently and lavishly illustrated to help you easily find and understand key concepts and procedures. This edition includes a companion website with slide decks, case studies, and a few videos.

    • Expanded content on the use of rigid endoscopy helps you perform the most current minimally invasive surgical procedures.
    • A new coeditor, Dr. Clarence Rawlings, shares his expertise in rigid endoscopy for diagnostic and surgical procedures and his extensive knowledge of endosurgery.
    • Consistent chapter organization includes sections on indications, instrumentation, patient preparation, and restraint, in addition to details of the procedures themselves.
    • Over 1,000 color images depict normal and abnormal anatomical features, as well as numerous tables and diagrammatic representations.
    • Required or recommended instrumentation
    • Instructions on how to care for, clean, and store endoscopic instruments
    • Pre-endoscopic procedures, including patient preparation, equipment set-up, and positioning of personnel
    • Instructions on how to correctly hold and manipulate both flexible and rigid endoscopes
    • Post-endoscopic procedures, including patient recovery and proper submission of tissue samples
    • Information on how to incorporate flexible and rigid endoscopy into a veterinary practice using specific marketing skills and appropriate personnel training
    • A bonus website takes understanding to the next level with slide decks, case studies, and a few videos.
      • Enables you to deliver the safest, high quality care and a wider range of services to the pets of increasingly concerned and savvy owners.
      • Features cutting-edge information on minimally invasive procedures to improve diagnostic accuracy, reduce operating time, improve success, minimize post-operative stress and pain, and promote faster healing.
      • Helps you recognize the many indications for endoscopy in everyday practice.
      • Covers a vast range of topics in a clear, concise and readable style.
      • Describes instrumentation, examination, and sample procurement techniques in detail.
      • Shows both normal and abnormal findings you may encounter during a procedure in an atlas of images in relevant chapters.
      • Provides minimally invasive examination and surgical options for veterinarians treating uniquely sensitive avian and exotic patients.
      • Provides step-by-step instructions on specific techniques.
      • Helps beginners master endoscopic diagnosis and treatment and more experienced endoscopists utilize their endoscopic equipment to its fullest capacity.

    • Part I: Flexible Endoscopy

        1. Endoscopic Instrumentation and Documentation for Flexible and Rigid Endoscopy

        2. Gastrointestinal Endoscopy: Instrumentation, Handling Technique, Training, and Implementation in Practice

        3. Esophagoscopy

        4. Gastroscopy

        5. Enteroscopic Examination of the Small Intestine

        6. Colonoscopy

        7. Endoscopic Removal of Gastrointestinal Foreign Bodies

        8. Endoscopic Biopsy Specimen Collection and Histopathologic Considerations

        9. Endoscopic Placement of Gastrostomy and Jejunostomy Tubes

        10. Laryngoscopy and Tracheobronchoscopy of the Dog and Cat

          11. Part II: Rigid Endoscopy

        11. Stapling and Energy Devices for Endoscopic Surgery

        12. Application of Laser Energy with Endoscopic Visualization

        13. Endoscopic Knot Tying and Suturing

        14. Psychomotor Training and Virtual Reality

        15. Laparoscopy

        16. Thoracoscopy

        17. Cystoscopy

        18. Vaginoscopy and Transcervical Catheterization in the Bitch

        19. Rhinoscopy

        20. Otososcopy

        21. Arthroscopy

        22. Exotic Pets

        23. Marketing Endoscopic Services in the Clinic

        24. New Technologies on the Horizon
    • Todd R. Tams, DVM, DACVIM, Chief Medical Officer, VCA Antech, Inc., Los Angeles, CA; Staff Internist, VCA West Los Angeles Animal Hospital, West Los Angeles, CA and Clarence A. Rawlings, DVM, PhD, DACVS, Professor Emeritus Small Animal Surgery, Department of Small Animal Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, The University of Georgia, Athens, GA
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