Product Description

Small Animal Critical Care Medicine is a comprehensive, concise guide to critical care, encompassing not only triage and stabilization, but also the entire course of care during the acute medical crisis and high-risk period. This clinically oriented manual assists practitioners in providing the highest standard of care for ICU patients.

• More than 150 recognized experts offer in-depth, authoritative guidance on clinical situations from a variety of perspectives.
• Consistent, user-friendly format ensures immediate access to essential information.
• Organ-system, problem-based approach incorporates only clinically relevant details.
• Features state-of-the-art invasive and non-invasive diagnostic and monitoring procedures, as well as an extensive section on pharmacology.
• Appendices provide conversion tables, continuous rate infusion determinations, reference ranges, and more.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #216545 in Books
• Published on: 2008-02-13
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 1000 pages

Customer Reviews

Excellent text for ICU vets
I purchased this book through the Amazon associate shop [...]
Emergency work is an exciting field for veterinarians. The numerous authors are comprised of a 'who's-who' of the veterinary emergency world. I found this book particularly useful in coverage of common and uncommon scenarios an emergency vet is faced with on a daily basis. Internal medicine topics like acute pancreatitis and acute renal failure are also tackled from a different angle or ICU perspective, compared with 'traditional' internal medicine texts. There is fantastic coverage on respiratory emergencies including ARDS and PTE, cardiovascular disorders, acid-base and electrolyte disturbances, fluid therapy, acute endocrine presentations, in-depth discussion of various intoxicatins seen in emergency practice, neurological disorders (including a chapter on CSF sampling), infectious disorders, haematological disorders, intraabdominal disorders including management of peritonitis and GDV, urogenital disorders and trauma events. Colour plates depicting various emergency procedures such as chest tube placement etc... There are also chapters on hard-to-find topics such as mechanical ventilation, ICU care of post-operative patients, colloid osmotic pressure and osmolality monitoring, blood gas monitoring, intracranial pressure monitoring, capnography, anaesthesia and analgesia of critically ill patients, and an extensive section on drugs commonly used in veterinary emergency and ICU wards. All-in-all, a worthy read and essential text to have on the emergency room shelf. This book has been a long-time coming.

Almost as good as having Deb down the hall...
I had the distinct pleasure of working with Dr. Silverstein and many of the chapter authors in this book. It certainly is a handy reference on a plethora of topics. It's my go to book when I want a quick overview of the background to a topic with just enough details/indepth material to satisfy the majority of my questions. Between this book and a few others my critical care needs are pretty much handled (don't cringe Deb, but some of us still use/need/love Plunkett- and certainly Dibartola has its uses).

I will say that the organization/page numbering system has always given me a bit of trouble, but its been well worth the effort.

I think its a good reference- not only for the ECC crew- but also other specialists (I'm a neurologist), emergency docs and GPs. Let's face it, we all deal with a sickie occaisionally and its nice to have some books on the shelf to help you out when you are trying to calculate pressor doses at midnight.

As to the neurology chapters- I think they are well written and helpful. I reviewed them for my board exam and found the information to be accurate and up to date.

Yonatan Cohen ,Israel
This book is one of the most user-friendly, comprehensive, how-to manuals I have ever come across. In fact, we have adopted this book for part of our hospital therary protocoles.
Yonatan Cohen, Israel