High Volume Spay and Neuter: A Safe and Time Efficient Approach Elsevier eBook on VitalSource

Introduction

1. How to Set Up the Surgery Suite for Maximum Efficiency. (Includes photos showing set-ups in mobile and stationary suites)
2. Suture Selection and Size for Maximum Safety. (Includes table showing characteristics on commonly used types of suture)
3. Suture Pattern Selection for Maximum Safety and Efficiency (Including illustrations of various patterns)
4. Maintaining Sterility (autoclaving, gowns, gloves, scrub, prep)
5. Prophylactic Antibiotics (considerations such as feral status, post-op environment, possible break in sterility during surgery)
6. How Order Of Surgical Patients Effects Efficiency
7. Patient Recovery (Multiple Patients At Once; ways to combat hypothermia, hypoglycemia, dehydration)
8. Post-Surgical Care At Home. (Take Home Instructions, Where will your emergencies go? E-collars, pain meds, tranquilizers)
9. Working Was a Team (Each team member has his/her job, consideration for each other=efficiency, how to be safely self-sufficient in surgery)
10. Large Canine Spay Surgery: Technique, Variations, Troubleshooting.*
11. Small Canine Spay Surgery: Technique, Variations, Troubleshooting.*
12. Standard Feline Spay Surgery: Technique, Variations, Troubleshooting.*
13. Auto-Ligation Feline Spay Surgery: Technique, Variations, Troubleshooting.*
14. Feline neuter surgery: technique, variations, troubleshooting.*
15. Ancillary Surgeries: (umbilical hernia repair, dewclaw removal)
16. What to do in the Case of Complications: (dropped pedicle or stump, incised spleen, incised bladder or bowel, internal bleeding post op)
17. Being Prepared for Major Complications: (cardiac arrest, spleen or kidney resection)
18. Tattooing Protocol and Rationale
19. Ergonomic Considerations and References

Appendix