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Explore Elsevier's Veterinary Science & Medicine resources and stay up-to-date with the latest research and development in the field, including reference and learning materials for students in veterinary medicine, veterinary technology/nursing, and veterinary assisting educational programs, as well as practicing veterinarians. This content portfolio covers all areas of Veterinary Science & Medicine, including small animals, large animals, exotic animals, avian medicine, zoo and food animal medicine, anatomy, basic science, pharmacology, and laboratory medicine. Elsevier's full solution includes textbooks, reference titles, point-of-care manuals, dictionary, coloring book, drug guides, and more.

  • Feline Practice: Integrating Medicine and Well-Being (Part II), An Issue of Veterinary Clinics of North America: Small Animal Practice

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 50-5
    • August 12, 2020
    • Margie Scherk
    • English
    This issue of Veterinary Clinics: Small Animal Practice, guest edited by Dr. Margie Scherk, is the second of two issues on Feline Practice: Integrating Medicine and Well-Being. Topics in this issue include, but are not limited to: Nutrition and risks of weight and muscle loss; Importance of maintaining muscle and weight: controversies in what to feed; Nutrition: How to feed; Nutrition: assessing requirements and current intake; Stem cell therapy and cats; Complex disease management: managing a cat with comorbidities; Hyperaldosteronism in cats, Hyperthyroidism and Hypothyroidism in cats; Updates in feline diabetes; Feline pancreatitis; Triaditis; Hypertension in cats; Feline gallbladder diseases; Oral health and disease; and Newly recognized neurological entities.
  • Applied Pharmacology for Veterinary Technicians

    • 6th Edition
    • July 21, 2020
    • Lisa Martini-Johnson
    • English
    **Selected for Doody’s Core Titles® 2024 with "Essential Purchase" designation in Veterinary Nursing & Technology**Learn to calculate dosages accurately and administer drugs safely! Applied Pharmacology for Veterinary Technicians, 6th Edition shows you how to determine drug dosages, administer prescribed drugs to animals, and instruct clients about side effects and precautions. Coverage of drugs includes pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, clinical uses, dosage forms, and adverse effects. An Evolve companion website offers practice with dosage calculations, and more. Written by veterinary technology educator Lisa Martini-Johnson, this resource provides the pharmacology knowledge you need to succeed as a vet tech!
  • Equine Genetic Diseases, An Issue of Veterinary Clinics of North America: Equine Practice

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 36-2
    • July 19, 2020
    • Carrie Finno
    • English
    This issue of Veterinary Clinics: Equine Practice, guest edited by Dr. Carrie Finno, focuses on Equine Genetic Diseases. Topics include: Genetics, Genomics, and Emergent Precision Medicine 12 years post Equine Reference Genome; Equine SNP Genotyping Arrays; Next-generation Sequencing; Genetic Testing in the Horse; Genetics of Cardiovascular Disease; Genetics of Respiratory Disease; Genetics of Neurological Disease; Genetics of Immune Disease; Genetics of Orthopedic Disease; Genetics of Ocular Disease; Genetics of Skin Disease; Genetics of Endocrine and Metabolic Disease; Genetics of Muscle Disease; Genetics of Laminitis; Genetics of Reproductive Diseases; and Genetics of Behavioral Traits.
  • Saunders Comprehensive Veterinary Dictionary

    • 5th Edition
    • July 18, 2020
    • Virginia P. Studdert + 2 more
    • English
    Saunders Comprehensive Veterinary Dictionary, 5th Edition includes the veterinary technical and scientific words and phrases you might encounter in practice. With well over 60,000 main and subentries including large animals, small animals, and exotics, presented in a user-friendly format, the fifth edition continues its legacy as the most comprehensive dictionary reference in the veterinary field. Completely revised and updated for today's veterinary team, it now includes an all-new companion Evolve site, which hosts an audio glossary of 1,200 common veterinary terms and an image collection featuring high-quality images from the book. The online site also includes printable appendices with essential reference information including conversion charts and blood groups of domestic animals.
  • Feline Practice: Integrating Medicine and Well-Being (Part I), An Issue of Veterinary Clinics of North America: Small Animal Practice

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 50-4
    • June 9, 2020
    • Margie Scherk
    • English
    This issue of Veterinary Clinics: Small Animal Practice, guest edited by Dr. Margie Scherk, is the first of two issues on Feline Practice: Integrating Medicine and Well-Being. Topics in this issue include, but are not limited to: Analgesia; Feline Chronic Pain and Degenerative Joint Disease; Feline Neuropathic Pain; Inevitability of Feline Aging: Meeting Physical, Psychological, and Psychoemotional Needs; Stress and Feline Health (Idiopathic Cystitis and the Pandora Syndrome); Environment and Feline Health At Home and in the Clinic; Behavior Problem or Problem Behavior?; Behavior as an Illness Indicator; News in FeLV; Understanding FIP - Update on Pathogenesis, Diagnosis, and Treatment; New Tests in Feline Medicine; Dermatophytoses/Nasa... Planum Diseases; Ethical Questions in Feline Medicine (Declawing, Housing, Prolonging Life); and Incorporating Genetics into Clinical Feline Practice.
  • Bovine Respiratory Disease, An Issue of Veterinary Clinics of North America: Food Animal Practice

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 36-2
    • June 3, 2020
    • Amelia R. Woolums + 1 more
    • English
    This issue of Veterinary Clinics: Food Animal Practice, guest edited by Drs. Amelia Woolums and Douglas Step, focuses on Bovine Respiratory Disease. This is one of three issues each year selected by the series consulting editor, Dr. Robert A. Smith. Articles in this issue include, but are not limited to: BRD from the 20th century to now: has anything changed?; Mannheimia haemolytica and Pasteurella multocida: how are they changing in response to our efforts to control them?; Mycoplasma bovis: what characteristics of this agent explain the disease that it causes?; Histophilus somni: antigenic changes relevant to BRD; The microbiome and BRD; Viruses in Bovine Respiratory Disease in North America: Knowledge Advances Using Genomic Testing; The Immunology of Bovine Respiratory Disease: Recent Advancements; Host tolerance to infection with the bacteria that cause bovine respiratory disease; How does nutrition influence BRD?; How does housing influence BRD?; Diagnostic tests for BRD; Details to attend to when managing high risk cattle; BRD Vaccination: MLV vs Killed? IN vs Parenteral? What is the evidence?; Timing of BRD Vaccination; Causes, significance, and impact of BRD treatment failure; The effect of market forces on BRD; and The future of BRD management in the era of precision agriculture, rapid DNA sequencing, and bioinformatics.
  • Cunningham. Fisiología veterinaria

    • 6th Edition
    • May 15, 2020
    • Bradley G. Klein
    • Spanish
    Obra de referencia en fisiología veterinaria cuya finalidad es introducir al estudiante en los principios y los conceptos de la especialidad, dar a conocer la fisiopatología y las técnicas de resolución de problemas y ayudarle a comprender el modo en el que los conceptos clave de la fisiología se relacionan con la práctica clínica. Cuenta con numerosos recuros didáctico como los cuadros de casos clínicos que ayudan a aplicar los principios y los conceptos fisiológicos al diagnóstico y el tratamiento de los pacientes veterinarios, y las preguntas de autoevaluación al final de cada capítulo, que evalúan la comprensión del texto. En esta nueva edición participan nuevos colaboraodres que aportan sus perspectivas y experiencias no sólo en el campo de la fisiología sino en otros como la neurociencia, la biología celular, la biología molecular, la inmunología y varias especialidades clínicas. La página web Evolve suministra recursos en lengua inglesa que acompañan ese texto, entre lo que resaltan las animaciones actualizadas que facilitan el aprendizaje con la presentación visual de funciones y enfermedades.
  • Small Animal Euthanasia, An Issue of Veterinary Clinics of North America: Small Animal Practice

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 50-3
    • March 30, 2020
    • Beth Marchitelli + 1 more
    • English
    This issue of Veterinary Clinics: Small Animal Practice, guest edited by Drs. Beth Marchitelli and Tami Shearer, focuses on Small Animal Euthanasia: Updates on Clinical Practice. This is one of six issues each year. Articles in this issue include, but are not limited to: historical perspective of euthanasia in veterinary medicine, the science of transitional states of consciousness and euthanasia, the physiology of death, pharmacological methods: an update on optimal pre-sedation and euthanasia solution administration, common and alternative routes of euthanasia solution administration, standardization of data collection to document adverse events associated with euthanasia, factors contributing to the decision to euthanize: diagnoses, clinical signs and triggers, euthanasia decision making: a collaboration between pet owners and veterinary professionals, euthanasia from the veterinary client's perspective: psychosocial contributors to euthanasia decision-making, and communication and euthanasia- beyond open ended questions
  • Papich Handbook of Veterinary Drugs

    • 5th Edition
    • March 30, 2020
    • Mark G. Papich
    • English
    **Selected for Doody’s Core Titles® 2024 in Veterinary Medicine**Papich Handbook of Veterinary Drugs, 5th Edition includes concise entries for more than 550 drugs, with appendices summarizing clinically relevant information at a glance. Nineteen new drug monographs are added to this edition, and over 100 drug monographs have been updated and revised. An Expert Consult website contains more than 150 instructional handouts that may be customized and printed out for your clients. Written by clinical pharmacology expert Mark Papich, this handy reference makes it easy to find the drug data and dosage recommendations you need to treat small and large animals, right when you need it!
  • Clinical Pathology for the Equine Practitioner, An Issue of Veterinary Clinics of North America: Equine Practice

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 36-1
    • March 7, 2020
    • Sallyanne L. DeNotta + 1 more
    • English
    This issue of Veterinary Clinics: Equine Practice, guest edited by Dr. Sally DeNotta and Dr. Tracy Stokol, focuses on Clinical Pathology for the Equine Practitioner. This is one of three issues each year selected by the series consulting editor, Dr. Thomas J. Divers. Articles in this issue include, but are not limited to: practical tips on sample handling for hematology, biochemistry and cytology, what a hemogram can tell you, bone marrow, update on coagulation, inflammatory markers, point-of-care diagnostics, clinical pathology in the foal, synovial, CSF, peritoneal, and pericardial fluids, airway diagnostics, liver and GI clinical pathology in sick adult horses, renal clinical pathology and urinalysis in sick adult horses, and clinical pathology in the performance horse.