Equine Colic, An Issue of Veterinary Clinics of North America: Equine Practice
- 1st Edition, Volume 39-2 - July 4, 2023
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Editor: Louise L. Southwood
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 7 2 8 8 - 8
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 7 2 8 9 - 5
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Contains 14 practice-oriented topics including current topics in medical colic; complications and impact on outcome; what is the microbiota and what is its role in colic?; repeat laparotomy; ultrasonographic evaluation; and more.
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Provides in-depth clinical reviews of equine colic, offering actionable insights for clinical practice.
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Presents the latest information on this timely, focused topic under the leadership of experienced editors in the field. Authors synthesize and distill the latest research and practice guidelines to create clinically significant, topic-based reviews.
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- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Contributors
- Forthcoming Issues
- Preface
- Epidemiology of Colic: Current Knowledge and Future Directions
- Key points
- Introduction
- Population studies and “big data”
- Economics and affordability of care
- The human element
- Colic prevention
- Decision making concerning likely diagnosis and treatment
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Disclosure
- Funding
- Updates on Diagnosis and Management of Colic in the Field and Criteria for Referral
- Key points
- Introduction
- The equine primary care practitioner’s role in colic triage
- Objective and effective colic triage
- Bladder and lateral ligaments of the bladder
- Pelvic flexure of the ascending (large) colon
- Small colon and fecal balls
- Left kidney and spleen
- Root of the mesentery and central abdomen
- Cecal tenia
- Management decisions following triage
- Analgesic options for colic cases
- Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs
- Nonselective COX inhibitors
- Selective COX-2 inhibitors
- Nontraditional nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs
- Clinics care points
- Disclosure
- Abdominal Sonographic Evaluation: In the Field, at the Hospital, and After Surgery
- Key points
- Introduction
- Small intestinal strangulated versus nonstrangulated obstruction
- Visualization of colonic mesenteric vessels
- Severely thickened large intestine
- Sand impactions and enteropathy
- Left dorsal displacement of the large colon with or without nephrosplenic ligament entrapment
- Postoperative monitoring
- Summary
- Disclosure
- Early Identification of Intestinal Strangulation: Why It Is Important and How to Make an Early Diagnosis
- Key points
- How to make an early diagnosis
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Disclosure
- Current Topics in Medical Colic
- Key points
- Gastric impaction
- Equine gastric glandular disease
- Inflammatory bowel disease
- Colon displacement
- Colic Surgery: Recent Updates
- Key points
- Introduction
- New approaches and techniques
- Reemerging or new diseases
- Techniques aimed at prevention or recurrence
- Updates on prognosis
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Disclosure
- Basic Postoperative Care of the Equine Colic Patient
- Key points
- Monitoring
- Antimicrobial use
- Analgesia
- Fluid therapy
- Postoperative nutrition
- Miscellaneous therapeutics
- Economics
- Expectations of normal recovery and return to use
- Clinics care points
- Disclosure
- Critical Care of the Colic Patient: Monitoring, Fluid Therapy, and More
- Key points
- Advances in monitoring
- Advances in fluid therapy
- Advances in nutrition management
- Pharmacotherapeutics
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Disclosures
- Funding sources
- Conflict of interest
- When Things Do Not Go As Planned: Update on Complications and Impact on Outcome
- Key points
- Introduction
- Post-operative ileus
- Adhesions
- Incisional complications
- Post-operative diarrhea
- Other complications
- Summary
- Disclosure
- Repeat Celiotomy—Current Status
- Key points
- Introduction
- Indications for repeat celiotomy
- Timing of repeat celiotomy
- Teamwork for repeat celiotomy
- Approach and exploration
- Typical findings
- Treatments at repeat celiotomy
- Expected response to repeat celiotomy
- Complications and survival rates
- When to stop
- Summary—small intestinal surgery
- Large intestine
- Disclosure
- Role of Laparoscopy in Diagnosis and Management of Equine Colic
- Key points
- Introduction
- Systematic laparoscopic visualization of the equine abdomen
- Intestinal biopsy and treatment of small intestinal lesions
- Nephrosplenic entrapment of the ascending colon and closure of the nephrosplenic space
- Epiploic foramen entrapment and preventive closure of the foramen
- Adhesiolysis
- Suture of mesenteric rents
- Diaphragmatic hernia
- Clinics care points
- Disclosure
- Supplementary data
- Neonates and Periparturient Mares: Tips and Tricks for Diagnosis and Management
- Key points
- Introduction
- Neonates
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- What Is the Microbiota and What Is Its Role in Colic?
- Key points
- Introduction to the microbiome
- Summary
- Disclosure
- Recurrent Colic: Diagnosis, Management, and Expectations
- Key points
- Introduction/definitions
- Primary recurrent colic
- Recurrent colic after surgery
- Clinics care points
- Disclosure
- Edition: 1
- Volume: 39-2
- Published: July 4, 2023
- Imprint: Elsevier
- No. of pages: 240
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN: 9780323972888
- eBook ISBN: 9780323972895
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Louise L. Southwood
Affiliations and expertise
Professor, Large Animal Emergency and Critical Care, New Bolton Center, University of Pennsylvania