Small Animal Clinical Techniques - Elsevier eBook on VitalSource (Retail Access Card),
With step-by-step instructions for 53 procedures, this must-have text includes everything you need to learn the techniques you need for everyday practice. The text and Companion CD work together to cover sample collection and handling procedures with photographs, illustrations, and video and make procedures easy to understand.
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- Complete descriptions of each procedure help you perform the skill with the level of competency required for the job.
- A consistent approach to all procedures with step-by-step instructions, principles, and photographs allows you to think logically and perform the skills well.
- Full-color design includes over 600 drawings and photographs to reinforce visual understanding of key concepts.
- Companion CD features narrated video, photos, and drawings for most procedures in the book to help you put techniques into practice.
- Expert author shares her years of expertise in education, veterinary medicine, and writing to provide a valuable learning tool.
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Chapter 1 VENOUS BLOOD COLLECTION
Chapter 2 ARTERIAL BLOOD COLLECTION
Chapter 3 INJECTION TECHNIQUES
Chapter 4 DERMATOLOGIC TECHNIQUES
Chapter 5 EAR EXAMINATION
Chapter 6 OCULAR TECHNIQUES
Chapter 7 RESPIRATORY SYSTEM TECHNIQUES
Chapter 8 PERICARDIOCENTESIS
Chapter 9 GASTROINTESTINAL SYSTEM TECHNIQUES
Chapter 10 URINARY SYSTEM TECHNIQUES
Chapter 11 VAGINAL CYTOLOGY
Chapter 12 BONE MARROW COLLECTION
Chapter 13 ARTHROCENTESIS
Chapter 14 CEREBROSPINAL FLUID COLLECTION
List of Procedures
Procedure 1-1 JUGULAR VENIPUNCTURE
Procedure 1-2 JUGULAR VENIPUNCTURE, INVERTED TECHNIQUE
Procedure 1-3 CEPHALIC VENIPUNCTURE
Procedure 1-4 LATERAL SAPHENOUS VENIPUNCTURE
Procedure 1-5 MEDIAL SAPHENOUS VENIPUNCTURE
Procedure 2-1 COLLECT ARTERIAL BLOOD FROM THE FEMORAL ARTERY
Procedure 2-2 COLLECT ARTERIAL BLOOD FROM THE DORSAL PEDAL ARTERY
Procedure 3-1 INTRAVENOUS INJECTIONS
Procedure 3-2 INTRAMUSCULAR INJECTIONS
Procedure 3-3 SUBCUTANEOUS INJECTIONS
Procedure 4-1 SKIN SCRAPING
Procedure 4-2 CELLOPHANE TAPE METHOD
Procedure 4-3 VACUUMING
Procedure 4-4 BACTERIAL CULTURE OF SKIN PUSTULE
Procedure 4-5 SKIN BIOPSY
Procedure 4-6 WOODS LAMP EXAMINATION
Procedure 5-1 EAR EXAMINATION
Procedure 6-1 SCHIRMER TEAR TEST
Procedure 6-2 CONJUNCTIVAL CULTURE
Procedure 6-3 FLUORESCEIN STAINING
Procedure 6-4 FLUSHING THE NASOLACRIMAL DUCTS
Procedure 6-5 APPLYING TOPICAL MEDICATIONS IN THE EYE
Procedure 6-6 CONJUNCTIVAL SCRAPINGS
Procedure 7-1 RESPIRATORY EXAMINATION AND AUSCULTATION
Procedure 7-2 INTERNAL NASAL EXAMINATION
Procedure 7-3 PHARYNGEAL EXAMINATION
Procedure 7-4 LARYNGEAL EXAMINATION
Procedure 7-5 TRANSTRACHEAL WASH – SMALL AND LARGE DOG
Procedure 7-6 SMALL DOG TRANSTRACHEAL WASH
Procedure 7-7 LARGE DOG TRACHEAL WASH
Procedure 7-8 ENDOTRACHEAL WASH
Procedure 7-9 BRONCHOSCOPIC BRONCHOALVEOLAR LAVAGE (BAL)
Procedure 7-10 LUNG ASPIRATION
Procedure 7-11 THORACOCENTESIS
Procedure 8-1 PERICARDIOCENTESIS
Procedure 9-1 ORAL EXAMINATION
Procedure 9-2 OROGASTRIC INTUBATION (PASSING A STOMACH TUBE)
Procedure 9-3 NASOGASTRIC INTUBATION
Procedure 9-4 ANAL SAC PALPATION AND EXPRESSION
Procedure 9-5 PERCUTANEOUS TRANSABDOMINAL LIVER BIOPSY
Procedure 9-6 FINE NEEDLE ASPIRATION BIOPSY OF THE LIVER
Procedure 9-7 ABDOMINOCENTESIS
Procedure 9-8 DIAGNOSTIC PERITONEAL LAVAGE (DPL)
Procedure 10-1 URINE COLLECTION BY CYSTOCENTESIS
Procedure 10-2 URINARY CATHETERIZATION: MALE CAT
Procedure 10-3 URINARY CATHETERIZATION: MALE DOG
Procedure 10-4 URINARY CATHETERIZATION: FEMALE DOG
Procedure 10-5 PROSTATIC WASH
Procedure 11-1 OBTAINING VAGINAL SAMPLES
Procedure 12-1 BONE MARROW ASPIRATION
Procedure 12-2 BONE MARROW CORE
Procedure 13-1 ARTHROCENTESIS
Procedure 14-1 CEREBROSPINAL FLUID COLLECTION
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Susan Meric Taylor, DVM, Diplomate ACVIM, Professor of Small Animal Medicine, Department of Small Animal Clinical Sciences, Western College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
