Manual of Equine Medicine and Surgery

Designed as a stand-alone quick reference for students and practitioners, MANUAL OF EQUINE MEDICINE AND SURGERY covers major assessment, diagnostic, and treatment protocols for common equine problems. The most important information, including tables, boxes, and reformatted narrative, from EQUINE MEDICINE AND SURGERY is included. Like the parent text, the manual logically presents common disorders by body system and has a distinctive approach that enables students and practitioners to make diagnoses by assessing the disease process.

* Serves as a quick reference for up-to-date coverage of equine medicine and surgery. * Provides a global perspective of equine medicine and surgery from authoritative, international contributors and editors. * Covers major assessment, diagnostic, and treatment protocols for common equine problems in a concise format. * Offers a cost savings when purchased in a package with the book, EQUINE MEDICINE AND SURGERY, or available separately.

Provides updated information on all aspects of equine practice.

Incorporates information from many new authoritative contributors who are on the cutting edge of the research

Includes over 1,250 illustrations (most are new) and new color plates in the chapters on the respiratory and musculoskeletal systems.

Enhances the scope of coverage with new chapters on:

Practice management

Critical care, including the most current information on circulatory shock, endotoxemia, septicemia, ischemia-reperfusion injury, and disaster medicine

Chemical restraint, general anesthesia, and surgery

Neonatal evaluation and management (plus new neonatal coverage integrated into each body system chapter)

Provides revised, updated, and expanded discussions of:

Exercise physiology tolerance testing, alternative medicine and acupuncture

Laminitis, including the latest research and prevention techniques

Equine protozoal myelitis

Farriery in a new section, written by a certified journeyman farrier, that includes more than 60 new illustrations and discusses shoes as therapeutic devices in treatment of lameness, bacterial and fungal infections, and tendon injuries

Thermography, accompanied by a new color plate section

Neonatal therapy integrated into each body system chapter

Embryo transfer, breeding using chilled semen, and postbreeding endometritis as a cause of infertility that reflects up-to-the-minute research by the author

Ischemia-reperfusion injury, including all the latest research

Adds chapter outlines at the beginning of each chapter with page numbers, making information easier to access

Offers a new Manual of Equine Medicine and Surgery packaged with the book at a cost savings or available separately.