Common Small Animal Medical Diagnoses: An Algorithmic Approach

The text provides the veterinarian with an overview of the differential diagnosis of a medical presentation, and allows for an easy and cost-effective way to break down a large list quickly into more manageable lists of differential diagnoses. The ability to narrow choices will most often be cost-effective and important to the veterinarian. This text presents an approach to the differential diagnosis of multiple medical presentations common to daily veterinary practice. Problems are presented as signs, symptoms and laboratory abnormalities, as would confront the veterinarians. Presented by disease of disorder, there are no formal chapters, simply algorithms which aid in speedy diagnosis.

Most current diagnostic tests and techniques have been incorporated into the algorithms

Organized by body system

Provides veterinarians with an overview of differential diagnosis of medical presentation common in daily medical practice.

The ability to narrow choices, allows for easy and cost effective decision making

Linda Shell, DVM, Diplomate, ACVIMn (Neurology), Ross U. School of Medicine, St. Kitts, West Indes; Charlotte Davies, MA, VetMB, MS, Cert., VA, MRCVS, Diplomate, ACVIM, (Internal Medicine), Veterinary Referral & Critical Care LLC, ManakinSabot, VA