Advances in Small Animal Care 2022
- 1st Edition, Volume 3-1 - November 8, 2022
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Editor: Philip H. Kass
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 8 4 9 7 7 - 7
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 8 4 9 7 8 - 4
Advances in Small Animal Care reviews the year’s most important findings and updates within the field in order to provide veterinarians with the current clinical information they… Read more
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Request a sales quoteAdvances in Small Animal Care reviews the year’s most important findings and updates within the field in order to provide veterinarians with the current clinical information they need to improve patient outcomes. A distinguished editorial board, led by Dr. Philip H. Kass, 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 inform and enhance clinical practice by bringing concepts to a clinical level and exploring their everyday impact on patient care.
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Contains 17 articles on such topics as the use of semiochemicals in pet animals: from prevention to treatment of behavioral problems; advanced cardiac and pancreatic imaging; probiotics in GI diseases of dogs and cats; emerging and re-emerging vector-borne diseases; optimal growth and obesity prevention; and more.
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Provides in-depth, clinical reviews in small animal care, providing actionable insights for clinical practice.
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Presents the latest information in the field under the leadership of an experienced editorial team. Authors synthesize and distill the latest research and practice guidelines to create these timely topic-based reviews.
Veterinary Medicine (Small animal)
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Advances in Small Animal Care
- Contributors
- Preface
- SECTION I: BEHAVIOR
- Factors to Consider when Selecting Puppies and Preventing Later Behavioral Problems
- Key points
- Introduction
- Critical aspects in behavioral development
- Discussion and practical implications
- Clinics care points
- Feline Behavioural Medicine – An Important Veterinary Discipline
- Key points
- Introduction
- Taking an internal medicine approach
- The concept of emotional valence
- Emotions not feelings
- Motivational-emotional systems
- Positive (engaging) emotional motivations
- Negative (protective) emotional motivations
- Recognizing the role of emotional arousal
- Application of the heath model to veterinary behavioural medicine
- Behavioural responses which increase distance from and decrease interaction with a trigger for protective emotion
- Behavioural responses which increase availability of information about a trigger for protective emotion
- Application of a behavioral medicine approach to the veterinary visit experience
- Considering behavioral medicine in feline practice
- “Problem” behaviors can result from positive, engaging, emotional motivation
- Determining the significance of emotional motivation
- Behavioural presentations related to justified emotional motivation and “normal” but unwanted behavioral responses
- Behavioural presentations related to unjustified emotional motivation or involving “abnormal” behavioral responses
- Relevance of feline behavioral medicine to general veterinary practice
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Peripheral Concentration of Amyloid-β, TAU Protein, and Neurofilament Light Chain as Markers of Cognitive Dysfunction Syndrome in Senior Dogs: A Meta-analysis
- Key points
- Introduction
- Materials and methods
- Results
- Discussion
- Clinics care points
- Supplementary data
- SECTION II: DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING
- Cardiac Computed Tomography Imaging
- Key points
- Introduction
- Evolution of computed tomography technology
- Spatial resolution
- Pitch and Z-axis coverage
- Temporal resolution
- Contrast administration
- Gating
- Heart rate and rhythm
- Development of a cardiac computed tomography protocol
- Artifacts
- Future avenues for research
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Advanced Imaging of the Pancreas
- Key points
- Introduction
- Normal pancreas
- Pancreatitis
- Pancreatic neoplasia
- Summary and future avenues
- Clinics care points
- Disclosure
- Update on Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Brain and Spine
- Key points
- Introduction
- Magnetic resonance imaging hardware
- Magnetic resonance imaging techniques
- Magnetic resonance imaging protocol recommendations
- Possible limitations of magnetic resonance imaging
- Clinics care points
- SECTION III: GASTROENTEROLOGY
- Modifying the Gut Microbiota – An Update on the Evidence for Dietary Interventions, Probiotics, and Fecal Microbiota Transplantation in Chronic Gastrointestinal Diseases of Dogs and Cats
- Key points
- Introduction
- Dietary modifications and prebiotics
- Probiotics in canine and feline gastrointestinal disease
- Fecal microbiota transplantation
- Summary
- Conclusion
- Clinics care points
- Nutrition in Canine and Feline Gastrointestinal Disease
- Key points
- Introduction
- Significance
- Present relevance and future avenues to consider or to investigate
- Summary/discussion
- Clinics care points
- Challenges in Differentiating Chronic Enteropathy from Low-Grade Gastrointestinal T-cell Lymphoma in Cats
- Key points
- Introduction
- Significance
- Summary/discussion
- Clinics care points
- Summary
- Update on Acute Hemorrhagic Diarrhea Syndrome in Dogs
- Key points
- Introduction
- Pathogenesis
- Signalment, clinical, and clinicopathologic abnormalities
- Recent discoveries
- Diagnostic strategy and monitoring
- Treatment and clinical course
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- SECTION IV: INFECTIOUS DISEASE
- Feline Immunodeficiency Virus: Current Knowledge and Future Directions
- Key points
- Introduction
- The virus
- Epidemiology
- Pathogenesis
- Prognosis
- Detection and diagnosis
- Management of infected cats
- Health care
- Vaccination
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Diagnostic Testing for Infectious Respiratory Tract Disease
- Key points
- Introduction to nasal diseases
- Specific disease considerations
- Introduction to airway and parenchymal infections
- Specific disease considerations
- Fungal pneumonia
- Introduction to pleural infection and empyema
- Specific disease considerations
- Clinics care points
- Canine Leptospirosis – Global Distribution, Diagnosis, and Treatment
- Key points
- Introduction
- Bacterial properties, taxonomy, and transmission
- Pathogenesis
- Global distribution
- Prevalence of silent shedders
- Epidemiology
- Clinical manifestations
- Diagnosis
- Serological diagnostics
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- SECTION V: NUTRITION
- Nutritional Management of Acute Pancreatitis
- Key points
- Introduction
- Significance
- Nutritional management strategies
- Enteral nutrition during acute pancreatitis
- Feeding tubes and routes
- Dietary considerations
- Future avenues to investigate
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Creating a Weight Loss Plan with Owner Engagement
- Key points
- Introduction—Why is weight loss important?
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Edition: 1
- Volume: 3-1
- Published: November 8, 2022
- Imprint: Elsevier
- No. of pages: 240
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN: 9780323849777
- eBook ISBN: 9780323849784
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Philip H. Kass
Affiliations and expertise
Philip H. Kass, BS, DVM, MPVM, MS, PhD, Vice Provost for Academic Affairs, Professor of Analytic Epidemiology, University of California, Davis, USA