Small Animal Critical Care Medicine is a comprehensive, concise guide to critical care, encompassing not only triage and stabilization, but also the entire course of care during the acute medical crisis and high-risk period. This clinically oriented manual assists practitioners in providing the highest standard of care for ICU patients.
Key Features
- More than 150 recognized experts offer in-depth, authoritative guidance on clinical situations from a variety of perspectives.
- Consistent, user-friendly format ensures immediate access to essential information.
- Organ-system, problem-based approach incorporates only clinically relevant details.
- Features state-of-the-art invasive and non-invasive diagnostic and monitoring procedures, as well as an extensive section on pharmacology.
- Appendices provide conversion tables, continuous rate infusion determinations, reference ranges, and more.
Author Information
By Deborah Silverstein, DVM, DACVECC, Assistant Professor (Critical Care), Department of Clinical Studies, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, PA, USA and Kate Hopper, BVSc, MVSc, DACVECC, Professor of Small Animal Emergency & Critical Care, Veterinary Surgical & Radiological Sciences, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, USA
Part I: Assessment and Triage
1. Physical examination
2. Patient triage
3. Survival prediction index
Part II: Frequently Encountered Problems in the Intensive Care Unit
4. Cardiopulmonary resuscitation
5. Fever
6. Hypotension
7. Oliguria
8. Deteriorating mental status
9. Tachypnea and hypoxemia
10. Shock
11. Systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS)
12. Nosocomial infections and zoonoses
13. Enteral nutrition
14. Parenteral nutrition
Part III: Respiratory Disorders
15. Respiratory failure
16. Upper airway disease
17. Endotracheal intubation
18. Tracheostomy
19. Oxygen therapy
20. Allergic airway disease and asthma
21. Pulmonary edema
22. Pneumonia
23. Aspiration pneumonitis and pneumonia
24. Acute lung injury and acute respiratory distress syndrome
25. Pulmonary contusions and hemorrhage
26. Ventilator associated lung injury
27. Pulmonary thromboembolism
28. Smoke inhalation
29. Atelectasis
30. Pleural space disease
31. Thoracocentesis
32. Thoracostomy tube placement and drainage
33. Chest wall disease
34. Non-respiratory “look-alikes
Part IV: Cardiovascular Disorders
35. Cardiogenic shock
36. Left ventricular failure
37. Feline cardiomyopathy
38. Canine cardiomyopathy
39. Valvular heart disease
40. Myocardial contusion
41. Myocardial infarction
42. Hypertensive crisis
43. Pericardial diseases
44. Pericardial tamponade
45. Bradyarrhythmias and conduction disturbances
46. Supraventricular tachyarrhythmias
47. Ventricular tachyarrhythmias
48. Myocarditis
49. Arterial catheterization
50. Pulmonary arterial catheterization
51. Temporary transvenous pacing
52. Trancutaneous pacing
53. Cardioversion and defibrillation
Part V: Electrolyte and Acid-Base Disturbances
54. Sodium disorders
55. Potassium disorders
56. Calcium disorders
57. Magnesium disorders
58. Phosphate disorders
59. Acid-base disturbances
60. Lactic acidosis
Part VI: Fluid Therapy
61. Peripheral venous catheterization
62. Intraosseous catheterization
63. Central venous catheterization
64. Daily intravenous fluid therapy
65. Shock fluids and fluid challenge
66. Transfusion medicine
Part VII: Endocrine Disorders
67. Diabetic ketoacidosis
68. Hyperglycemic hyperosmolar syndrome
69. Hypoglycemia
70. Diabetes insipidus
71. Syndrome of inappropriate antidiuretic hormone
72. Thyroid storm
73. Myxedema coma
74. Pheochromocytoma
75. Relative Adrenal insufficiency
76. Hypoadrenocorticism
Part VIII: Intoxications
77. Approach to poisoning and drug overdose
78. Ethylene glycol
79. Acetominophen and salicylates
80. Illicit drugs
81. Rodenticides
82. Sedative, muscle relaxant, and narcotic overdose
83. Calcium channel and beta-block drug overdose
84. Digoxin overdose
85. Cyanide
86. Carbon monoxide
87. Methemoglobinemia
88. Cyclic antidepressant drug overdose
89. Anticholineric poisonings
90. Serotonin syndrome
91. Anticholinesterase toxicity
92. Ivermectin toxicity
93. Pyrethrins
94. Snake envenomation
95. Spider bite
Part IX: Neurologic Disorders
96. Coma scales
97. Seizures and status epilepticus
98. Spinal cord injury
99. Intracranial hypertension
100. Lower motor neuron disease
101. Tetanus
102. Hepatoencephalopathy
103. Vestibular disease
104. Cerebrospinal fluid sampling
Part X: Infectious Disorders
105. Sepsis
106. Septic shock
107. Gram-positive infections
108. Gram-negative infections
109. Fungal infections
110. Viral infections
111. Canine parvovirus
112. Endocarditis
113. Urosepsis
114. Necrotizing soft-tissue infections
115. Catheter-related bloodstream infection
116. Hematologic Disorders
117. Hypercoagulable states
118. Bleeding disorders
119. Thrombocytopenia
120. Anemia
121. Acute hemolytic disorders
122. Blood smear evaluation
Part XI: Intra-abdominal Disorders
123. Acute abdominal pain
124. Acute pancreatitis
125. Acute cholecystitis
126. Hepatitis and cholangiohepatitis
127. Hepatic failure
128. Gastroenteritis
129. Motility disorders
130. Gastrointestinal hemorrhage
131. Vomiting and Regurgitation
132. Diarrhea
133. Peritonitis
134. Gastric dilatation volvulus and bloat
Part XII: Urogenital Disorders
135. Acute renal failure
136. Chronic renal failure
137. Hemodialysis and Peritoneal dialysis
138. Urinary catheterization
139. Pyometra
140. Dystocia and Obstetric crises
141. Paraphimosis and priapism
142. Mastitis
Part XIII: Surgical and Postoperative Conditions
143. Preoperative evaluation of the critically ill patient
144. Postoperative evaluation of the critically ill patient
145. Post-craniotomy management
146. Portosytemic shunt management
147. Peritoneal drainage techniques-
148. Post-thoracotomy management
149. Post-cardiac surgery management
150. Post-cardio-pulmonary bypass management
151. Kidney transplantation
Part IV: Trauma
152. Traumatic brain injury
153. Thoracic trauma
154. Abdominal trauma
155. Abdominocentesis
156. Diagnostic peritoneal lavage
157. Wound management
158. Thermal burn injury
159. Electrical and lightning injuries
160. Massive transfusion
Part XV: Anesthesia and Pain Management
161. Pain and sedation assessment
162. Sedation of the critical patient
163. Anesthesia of the critical patient
164. Analgesia and continuous rate infusions
165. Complementary and alternative therapies
Part XVI: Miscellaneous Disorders
166. Hypothermia
167. Heat stroke
168. Anaphylaxis
169. Near drowning
170. Fat embolism
171. Tumor lysis syndrome
172. Ocular disease in the intensive care unit
173. Air embolism
174. Critical pediatric patients
175. Critical geriatric patients
Part XVII: Pharmacology
176. Vasoactive catecholamines
177. Vasopressin
178. Antihypertensives
179. Nitroglycerin
180. Diuretics
181. Gastrointestinal protectants
182. Anti-emetics
183. Neuromuscular blockers
184. Narcotic agonists and naloxone
185. Benzodiazepines and flumazenil
186. Anticonvulsants-
187. Anticoagulants
188. Thrombolytic agents
189. Digoxin
190. Antidysrhythmic agents
191. Beta blockers
192. Inhaled medications
193. Complications of chemotherapeutic agents
194. Principles of antimicrobial use
195. Penicillins and cephalosporins
196. Aminoglycosides
197. Fluoroquinolone
198. Macrolides
199. Antifungal therapy
200. Miscellaneous antibiotics
Part XVIII: Monitoring
201. Daily assessment of the critical patient
202. Nutritional assessment
203. Hemodynamic monitoring
204. Urine output
205. Colloid osmotic pressure and osmolality
206. Intraabdominal pressure
207. Capnography
208. Blood gas and oximetry monitoring
209. Intracranial pressure monitoring
210. Sedation monitoring
211. Electrocardiogram evaluation
212. Cardiac output monitoring
Part XIX: Mechanical Ventilation
213. Basic mechanical ventilation
214. Advanced mechanical ventilation
215. Jet ventilation
216. Care of the ventilator patient
217. Discontinuing mechanical ventilation
Appendix
Conversion tables
Calculations and continuous rate infusions
Reference ranges
Management of the critical care unit
