Description
For the most extensive coverage of horse disease, look to EQUINE MEDICINE AND SURGERY. This comprehensive, two-volume text of medical and surgical diseases is organized by body systems, with introductory chapters on diagnostic approaches to common complaints, practice management, evaluation and diagnosis, and therapy. More than 1600 illustrations and numerous full-color plates enhance the new, expanded coverage of critical care, the neonate, farriery, breeding, infertility, and tendon and ligament injuries.
Key Features
* Serves as a one-stop reference with comprehensive, up-to-date coverage of both equine medicine and surgery. * Provides a global perspective of equine medicine and surgery from authoritative, international contributors and editors. * Promotes decision making in the diagnostic process with a consistent organization of each body system chapter: examination, diagnostic aids, pathophysiology and principles of therapy, diseases affecting multiple sites, then diseases of each component of the system. * Uses color plates that clearly illustrate syndromes in the chapters on the respiratory, ocular, musculoskeletal, integumentary, and hemolymphatic systems.
Companion Products
Table Of Contents1 Clinical Syndromes: Diagnostic Approaches to Common Presenting Complaints 2 Principles of Equine Practice Management 3 Patient Evaluation and Diagnosis 4 Principles of Therapy 5 Critical Care Medicine 6 Neonatal Evaluation and Management 7 Principles of Chemical Restraint, General Anesthesia, and Surgery 8 Cardiovascular System 9 Respiratory System 10 Alimentary System 11 Nervous System 12 Reproductive System: the Stallion 13 Reproductive System: the Mare 14 Ocular System 15 Musculoskeletal System 16 Urinary System 17 Integumentary System 18 Endocrine System 19 Hemolymphatic System
Author Information
By Patrick T. Colahan, DVM, Dipl ACVS, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL; Alfred M. Merritt, DVM, MS, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL; James N. Moore, DVM, PhD, Dipl ACVS, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Georgia, Athens, GA; and .I G. (Joe) Mayhew, BVSc, PhD, FRCVS, Dipl ACVIM, ECVN Royal School of Veterinary Studies, University of Edinburgh, Easter Bush, Roslin, Midlothian, Scotland |