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Animal Restraint for Veterinary Professionals

  • 3rd Edition - April 3, 2023
  • Latest edition
  • Authors: C. C. Sheldon, James Topel
  • Language: English

**Selected for Doody’s Core Titles® 2024 in Veterinary Nursing & Technology**Master proven techniques for the handling and restraint of common animals! Providing clear guid… Read more

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**Selected for Doody’s Core Titles® 2024 in Veterinary Nursing & Technology**

Master proven techniques for the handling and restraint of common animals! Providing clear guidelines to each procedure, Animal Restraint for Veterinary Professionals, 3rd Edition includes photos showing the exact steps needed to achieve safe restraint of animals seen in the veterinary clinic and visited on farm calls. Separate chapters are devoted to each domestic animal species, including cats, dogs, cattle, horses, sheep, goats, pigs, rabbits, rodents, ferrets, and birds. This edition adds descriptions of new restraint techniques for cats, dogs, and other species. Written by expert veterinary technician instructors C.C. Sheldon, and James A. Topel, this practical guide also includes a chapter on knot tying!

Key features

  • Step-by-step guidelines make it easy to understand safe, commonly used restraint procedures, and include alternative restraint techniques for several different species
  • More than 500 full-color images and a clear, non-technical writing style depict and simplify animal restraint concepts
  • Comprehensive coverage includes normal and abnormal animal behavior characteristics, precautions, special handling, restraint devices, and descriptions of special restraint techniques for medical procedures such as venipuncture
  • Restraint Principles chapter summarizes the considerations for proper restraint, animal safety, circumstances for restraint, the effect of restraint on animals, and complications
  • Knot Tying chapter presents basic types of knots that may be used to safely restrain larger animals

Table of contents

1. Restraint Principles

2. Knot Tying

3. Restraint of Cats

4. Restraint of Dogs

5. Restraint of Cattle

6. Restraint of Horses

7. Restraint of Sheep

8. Restraint of Goats

9. Restraint of Swine

10. Restraint of Rodents, Rabbits and Ferrets

11. Restraint of Birds

Appendix

1: Gender Names

2: Physiologic Data

Product details

  • Edition: 3
  • Latest edition
  • Published: July 18, 2023
  • Language: English

About the authors

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C. C. Sheldon

Dr Clarissa (CC ) Sheldon trained Veterinary technicians at Madison Area Technical College for 27 Years. Believing that medicine is a service to life she led students into the field of service medicine by hosting and recruiting students for monthly spay and neuter clinics for Dane county friends of feral, providing volunteers for local humane societies, leading weeklong service trips to Best friend Animal sanctuary, Heifer International ranch in Arkansas, The everglades outpost, spirit horse program in South Dakota and numerous sled dog races across the Midwest for over 20 years. Her joy is helping veterinary technicians use their skills to serve animals and the people who love them.
Affiliations and expertise
Program Director, Veterinary Technician and Laboratory Animal Technician Programs, Madison Area Technical College, Madison, WI, USA

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James Topel

Affiliations and expertise
Instructor, Vet Tech and Lab Animal Tech, Madison Area Technical College, Madison, WI, USA