Advances in Small Animal Care, 2021

1st Edition, Volume 2-1 - October 17, 2021
Editors: Philip H. Kass, David Levine, Denis J. Marcellin-Little, Laurel Gershwin, Larry D. Cowgill
Language: English
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Advances in Small Animal Care reviews the year’s most important questions in small animal veterinary medicine. A distinguished editorial board identifies key areas of major progress and controversy and invites preeminent specialists to contribute original articles devoted to these topics. These insightful overviews in small animal care bring concepts to a clinical level and explore their everyday impact on patient care.

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Title page
Table of Contents
Copyright
Advances in Small Animal Care
Contributors
Preface
Rehabilitation
Multifactorial Rehabilitation Planning in Companion Animals
Key points
Introduction
General features of rehabilitation programs
Musculoskeletal tissue atrophy resulting from disuse
Selecting management options during physical rehabilitation
Proactive and retroactive forms of physical rehabilitation
Medical conditions
Patient profile
Ownership profile
Care algorithms
Clinics care points
Cryotherapy in Small Animal Rehabilitation
Key points
Introduction
Physiologic effects of cryotherapy
Influences of cryotherapy on other rehabilitation treatments
Application, risks, and precautions
Types of cryotherapy devices
Literature review
Cryotherapy over coaptation devices
Summary
Clinics care points
Manual Therapy in Small Animal Rehabilitation
Key points
Introduction
Massage techniques
Additional manual techniques
Review of joint mobilizations
Summary
Clinics care points
The Role of Strengthening in the Management of Canine Osteoarthritis: A Review
Key points
Introduction
Strength training and aerobic activity in osteoarthritis
Resistance training in osteoarthritis
Aquatic therapy
Swimming versus walking
Summary
Clinics care points
Emergency and Critical Care
Crystalloids versus Colloids: Same Controversy, New Information
Key points
Introduction
Significance
Present relevance and future avenues to consider or to investigate
Summary
Clinics care points
Current and Future Practice in the Diagnosis and Management of Sepsis and Septic Shock in Small Animals
Key points
Introduction
Significance (in depth analysis)
Present relevance and future avenues to consider or to investigate
Discussion
Summary
Clinics care points
Current Standards and Practices in Small Animal Mechanical Ventilation
Key points
Initiating mechanical ventilation
Modes of ventilation
Application of positive end-expiratory pressure
Suggested initial settings
Monitoring the mechanically ventilated patient
Complications of mechanical ventilation
Weaning from mechanical ventilation
Recovery from mechanical ventilation
Clinics care points
Medical and Surgical Management of Ureteral Obstructions
Key points
Introduction
Etiology
Diagnostic approach
Medical management
Surgical management
Interventional management
Postoperative management
Ureteral intervention decision-making
Clinics care points
Immunology
Current Knowledge on Canine Atopic Dermatitis: Pathogenesis and Treatment
Key points
Introduction
Pathogenesis
Treatment
Future avenues to consider
Clinics care points
Urology
Reevaluation of Prescription Strategies for Intermittent and Prolonged Renal Replacement Therapies
Key points
Introduction
Current intermittent hemodialysis and intermittent hemodialysis hybrid prescription and delivery assessments
A reassessed paradigm for dialysis prescription and delivery
Therapeutic and prescription presumptions
Reprised urea reduction ratio approach and prolonged intermittent renal replacement therapy calculator to deliver renal replacement by fractional urea clearance
Summary
Clinics care points
Activated Carbon Hemoperfusion and Plasma Adsorption: Rediscovery and Veterinary Applications of These Abandoned Therapies
Key points
Introduction
Background
Hemoperfusion devices
Adsorption fundamentals
Legacy and modern sorbents
Use of hemoperfusion in drug overdose and poisoning
Hemoperfusion in other disease conditions
Hemoperfusion; therapy delivery
Hemoperfusion; complications
Summary
Clinics care points
Funding
Vaccine-Enhanced Adoptive T-Cell Therapy to Treat Canine Cancers
Key points
Introduction
General overview, background, and study rationale for vaccine-enhanced adoptive cell therapy
Vaccine-enhanced adoptive cell therapy in dogs: protocol and components
Significance and future directions
Clinics care points
Veterinarian Wellness
How to Toughen Them up Without Roughin’ Them Up
Key points
Introduction
Hazing in the workplace
Ways to teach the skill set without roughing up the students
Safety
Perspective
Open mindedness
Problem solving
Awareness of life experiences
Direct communication
Connective communication
Summary
Clinics care points
The Myth of Compassion Fatigue and the Reality of Emotional Fatigue
Key points
Introduction
Compassion fatigue versus emotional fatigue
Emotional fatigue in veterinary medicine
Separating emotional fatigue from compassion fatigue
Combating emotional fatigue
Summary
Clinics care points

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Philip H. Kass

David Levine

Denis J. Marcellin-Little

Larry D. Cowgill