BSAVA Manual of Canine and Feline Emergency and Critical Care

ForewordPreface1 Triage of the emergency patientAndrew J. Brown and Kenneth J. Drobatz2 Vascular accessSophie Adamantos3 Assessment and treatment of shockEmily Thomas and Elise Boller4 Fluid therapyAmanda Boag and Dez Hughes5 Electrolyte and acid-base balanceAmanda Boag6 Cardiovascular emergenciesJosé Novo Matos and Nuala Summerfield7 General approach to respiratory distressLori S. Waddell and Lesley G. Kingi8 Renal and urinary tract emergenciesJonathan D. Foster and Karen Humm9 Neurological emergenciesCharles Vite and Evelyn Galban10 Ophthalmological emergenciesCristina Seruca and Debbie Mandell11 Approach to gastrointestinal emergenciesGareth Buckley and Elizabeth Rozanski12 Acute abdominal and gastrointestinal surgical emergenciesDavid Holt and Gareth Buckley13 Haematological emergenciesRobert Goggs and Susan G. Hackner14 Transfusion medicineGillian Gibson and Mary Beth Callan15 Reproductive and paediatric emergenciesErica Reineke and Dan Lewis16 Endocrine emergenciesBarbara J. Skelly17 Acute management of orthopaedic and external soft tissue injuriesSorrel Langley-Hobbs and Matthew Pead18 Dermatological emergenciesPetra Roosje19 Toxicological emergenciesJonathan M. Babyak and Justine A. Lee20 Cardiopulmonary resuscitationEdward Cooper and Manuel Boller21 Anaesthesia, sedation and analgesia of the critical patientGiacomo Gianotti and Paulo Steagall22 Nutritional support of the critical patientKathryn Michel23 Bacterial infections in the critical patientIain Keir and Dawn Merton-Boothe24 Imaging techniques for the critical patientAndrew Parry and Frances Barr25 Team approach to the critically ill patient - the role of the veterinary nurseEmily Savino and Lila Sierra

Lesley G. King, MVB, DipACVECC, DipACVIM, graduated from the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University College Dublin in 1986. Following a residency in small animal medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, she remained on staff in the Intensive Care Unit as a Professor of Critical Care and Director of the Intensive Care Unit. Lesley was a founding Diplomate of the European College of Veterinary Medicine, and also served as a Diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine and American College of Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care.Amanda Boag, MA, VetMB, DipECVECC, DipACVECC, DipACVIM, FHEA, MRCVS, graduated from Cambridge University. She undertook further clinical training at the Royal Veterinary College (RVC) and the University of Pennsylvania and is Board certified in both internal medicine and emergency and critical (ECC) care. She was a lecturer in ECC at the RVC from 2003-2008, until she took up the post of Clinical Director at Vets Now where she has responsibility for clinical and professional standards across 55 emergency clinics and three 24-hour hospitals. Amanda is the Founding President of the European College of Veterinary ECC, is an elected RCVS Council member and is currently Vice President of the RCVS.