Small Animal Anesthesia and Pain Management: A Color Handbook (Veterinary Color Handbook Series)

3* Doody's Review!

This concise quick reference guide has been thoroughly updated in its second edition. It remains clinically focused, based on experience underpinned by published research data.With 18 brand new chapters on topics ranging from perioperative blood works and urine analysis to light therapy in pain management and rehabilitation, the book covers anesthetic equipment, monitoring, premedication, intravenous induction agents, injectable anesthetic combinations, inhalant anesthesia, anesthesia for specific diseases, fluid therapy, anesthetic emergencies and complications, acute and chronic pain management. Nine new chapters address anaesthetic considerations for different surgeries.

Drug dosages and anesthetic protocols are provided in tabular form. New to this edition are chapters covering anesthesia considerations for specific conditions and diseases, including

• perioperative blood works and urine analysis
• blood transfusion medicine
• anesthetic considerations and interpretations
• rehabilitation and pain management for chronic pain patients
• pain management of oncologic pain and radiation therapy
• acupuncture and herbal medication for acute and chronic pain and
• low level light therapy in pain management.

Containing over 300 color illustrations, Small Animal Anesthesia and Pain Management is ideal for all those who need practical information easily to hand: small animal practitioners, veterinary technicians/nurses, and veterinary students.

Dr. Ko has been a professor and clinical anesthesiologist in the Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences, School College of Veterinary Medicine, Purdue University since January of 2006. He is a diplomate of American College of Veterinary Anesthesia and Analgesia and a frequent speaker at regional, national and international meetings.