Equine Clinical Medicine, Surgery and Reproduction
The internationally respected editors and authors have combined to produce this major new textbook and reference source in a single volume, covering all aspects of equine medicine, surgery, and reproduction. The text is supported by a wealth of over 1200 illustrations of the highest quality: color photographs, radiographic and ultrasound images, and diagrams.
Interest in avian medicine has evolved and it is now one of the fastest growing areas in veterinary medicine. In this concise practical and beautifully illustrated book, early chapters deal with anatomy and physiology, physical examination and advice on how to interpret diagnostic tests.
This book provides systematic coverage of small animal ophthalmology via randomized self-assessment case presentations: integrated questions, superb illustrations, color photos, imaging, diagrams, tables, and detailed explanatory answers. The authors have emphasize the more common ophthalmic conditions presented to veterinarians in practice with 251 illustrated cases. The differential diagnoses, examination techniques, and therapies for these ocular conditions are discussed within specific cases.
Chronic pain is unlike acute pain, it lasts beyond the time necessary for healing and resists normal treatment. The primary indicator of chronic pain is not how long it persists, but whether it remains long after it should have disappeared. No one patient feels pain in the same way and yet in veterinary medicine the patient's pain is generally assessed based on a single standard.