cover image - Animal Restraint for Veterinary Professionals - Elsevier eBook on VitalSource, 2nd Edition
ISBN: 9780323354998
Copyright: 2017
Publication Date: 09-30-2016
Page Count: 256
Imprint: Elsevier
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Animal Restraint for Veterinary Professionals - Elsevier eBook on VitalSource, 2nd Edition

by C. C. Sheldon, DVM, MS, Teresa F. Sonsthagen, BS, LVT and James Topel, CVT

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cover image - Animal Restraint for Veterinary Professionals - Elsevier eBook on VitalSource, 2nd Edition
ISBN: 9780323354998
Copyright: 2017
Publication Date: 09-30-2016
Page Count: 256
Imprint: Elsevier
List Price: $64.99
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Learn effective animal handling and restraint techniques! Animal Restraint for Veterinary Professionals, 2nd Edition describes each procedure with two to eight photos showing the exact steps needed to achieve safe restraint. A chapter is devoted to each domestic animal species, including cats, dogs, cattle, horses, sheep, goats, pigs, rabbits, rodents, ferrets, and birds. New to this edition are updated photographs showing the latest and greatest restraint procedures for all types of animals. Written by expert veterinary technician educators C.C. Sheldon, Teresa Sonsthagen, and James Topel, this practical guide also includes a chapter on knot tying!

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    • Step-by-step guidelines make it easy to understand safe, proper restraint procedures
    • Over 500 full-color photographs illustrate restraint procedures
    • A clear, non-technical writing style along with descriptive photographs simplifies animal restraint concepts
    • Comprehensive coverage in each chapter includes normal and abnormal behavior characteristics, precautions, special handling, restraint devices, and descriptions of medical procedures — such as venipuncture — for which special restraint procedures are necessary
    • Restraint Principles chapter summarizes the considerations for restraint, animal safety, circumstances for restraint, the effect of restraint on animals, and complications
    • Knot Tying chapter presents basic types of knots that may be used to safely restrain larger animals
    • UPDATED chapters include behavioral observations describing what to look for in the animal being restrained
    • NEW full-color photographs accompany new restraint procedures for various species
    • NEW! Alternative restraint techniques are added, accompanied by step-by-step photos
  • 1. Restraint Principles
    2. Knot Tying
    3. Restraint of Cats
    4. Restraint of Dogs
    5. Restraint of Cattle
    6. Restraint of Horses
    7. Restraint of Sheep
    8. Restraint of Goats
    9. Restraint of Swine
    10. Restraint of Rodents, Rabbits and Ferrets
    11. Restraint of Birds

    Appendix
    1: Gender Names
    2: Physiologic Data
  • C. C. Sheldon, DVM, MS, Program Director, Veterinary Technician and Laboratory Animal Technician Programs, Madison Area Technical College, Madison, WI, USA, Teresa F. Sonsthagen, BS, LVT, Senior Lecturer, Co-Director of the Veterinary Technology Program, Retired, North Dakota State University, Fargo, North Dakota, USA and James Topel, CVT, Instructor, Vet Tech and Lab Animal Tech, Madison Area Technical College, Madison, WI, USA
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