Product Description

Learn to effectively recognize, diagnose, and treat common internal medical conditions with this invaluable reference. Small Animal Internal Medicine, Fourth Edition, emphasizes practical diagnostic approaches and focuses on the clinically relevant aspects of patient medical management. Extensive color illustrations, boxes, and algorithms, plus new photographs, schematic representations, and updated tables, set this book apart. With its highly functional design and clear, expert voice, this text delivers the most relevant information for the internal medical challenges you're most likely to face.

• Utilizes a problem-oriented approach, beginning with a discussion of clinical signs and diagnostic recommendations and techniques and moving on to therapeutic considerations and management
• Each contributor is a recognized expert in his or her respective specialty.
• Limited number of authors provides consistency.
• Clear, step-by-step procedural guidelines thoroughly describe each procedure.
• Cross-referencing throughout the book reduces redundancy and makes information easy to locate.
• Suggested readings at the end of each chapter alert you to the latest research findings.
• Comprehensive drug tables provide recommended dosages and indications.
• Purposefully written to enhance critical thinking and decision-making skills based on clinical findings.
• Hundreds of summary boxes and tables allow quick access to clinical signs, etiology, differential diagnoses, drugs, and treatment.
• Full-color format brings you accurate visual depictions of specific disorders, diseases, and procedures.

• Two new section editors bring a fresh perspective.
• Discussion of Immune-Mediated Disorders has been significantly expanded and made into its own section.
• Hundreds of new, full-color photographs and quick reference tables throughout
• Completely updated drug and treatment guidelines tables

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #72434 in Books
• Published on: 2008-12-02
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 1504 pages

Customer Reviews

Excellent book of internal medicine
This is really good book for all veterinary medicine students even if english is not their mother language. I like the way how this book is written. There are also many tables and boxes so you can find important information really quickly. I'm really happy that I bought this book.

Excellent
small animal internal medicine by Nelson and Couto is an excellent book to read, given the fact that the info contain within is current, the chapter editors' are a distinguished selection of the most important research clinicians that offer the reader in a fascinating way, a concise description of small animal pathologies. Thanks for your masterpiece work!!!