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Pain management for veterinary technicians and nurses /
Pain Management for Veterinary Technicians and Nurses guides readers through the important concepts of animal pain management, providing specific approaches to managing pain in a wide variety of veterinary conditions. Emphasizing the technician's role in advocating for the patient, the book equ...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ames, Iowa :
John Wiley & Sons, Inc.,
2015.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- About the companion website
- Advancing veterinary pain management into a new era
- Pain management careers for veterinary technicians and nurses
- Pain recognition in companion species, horses, and livestock
- Physiology of pain
- Analgesic pharmacology
- Locoregional analgesic blocking techniques
- Surgical pain management
- Analgesia for emergency and critical care patients
- Chronic pain management for the companion animal
- Analgesia for shelter medicine and Trap-Neuter-Return programs
- Analgesia in equine practice
- Analgesia for livestock and camelids
- Analgesia in exotic animals
- Analgesia for zoo animal and wildlife practice
- Nutritional considerations for pain management in dogs and cats
- Physical rehabilitation and the veterinary technician
- The veterinary technician in alternative therapies
- Pain management for end-of-life care
- Appendixes : A. Formulary
- B. Constant rate infusions
- C. Critical care case studies
- D. Routine care protocols
- E. Key signs of pain according to chapters of text
- F. Further reading
- Index.