Small Animal Critical Care Medicine: A Comprehensive Guide

By Deborah Silverstein DVM, DACVECC, and Kate Hopper BVSc, MVSc, DACVECC, the 3rd edition of Small Animal Critical Care Medicine is a significantly updated resource for veterinary critical care. It focuses on diagnostic and management strategies for the sickest veterinary patients, covering critical care medical therapy, monitoring, and prognosis from assessment and stabilization through the entire course of intensive care treatment.

Key Features

This indispensable resource includes:

• Over 200 concise, thoroughly updated chapters covering all the clinical areas needed for evaluating, diagnosing, managing, and monitoring a critical veterinary patient.
• More than 150 recognized experts and many new authors offering in-depth, authoritative guidance on emergency and critical care clinical situations from a variety of perspectives.
• A problem-based approach focusing on clinically relevant details.
• Handy appendices offering quick access to the most often needed calculations, conversion tables, continuous rate infusion determinations, reference ranges, and more.
• Practical, user-friendly format making reference quick and easy with summary tables, boxes highlighting key points, illustrations, and algorithmic approaches to diagnosis and management.

New and Updated Content

This edition includes new and updated content on:

• High-flow nasal oxygen therapy and both core and advanced concepts for mechanical ventilation to help deliver high-quality care to patients with respiratory failure.
• Current critical care topics such as Assessment of Intravascular Volume, Urine Osmolality and Electrolytes, and Infectious Disease Control in the ICU.
• Novel procedures including coverage of tracheal stents, urinary diversion techniques, and an in-depth review of point-of-care ultrasound with extensive figures and images.
• Increasingly prevalent problems seen in the intensive care unit, including coagulation disorders of the critically ill patient, feline aortic thromboembolism, oxygen toxicity, and treatment of severe hypertension.
• Shock fluid therapy and transfusion therapy to prevent complications and maximize resources.
• A chapter on Prevention of Compassion Fatigue and Burnout, addressing a major challenge currently affecting the veterinary profession.
• Algorithms and figures throughout the text to clarify key concepts and aid in diagnosis and treatment.

Enhanced eBook

With the purchase of a new print copy of the book, an enhanced eBook is included, providing online access to a fully searchable version of the text and making its content available on various devices.

Publication Details

Small Animal Critical Care Medicine, 3rd edition, is published by Saunders and was released on December 29, 2022. It is available in English and contains 1280 pages. The ISBN-10 is 032376469X, and the ISBN-13 is 978-0323764698.