The Equine Hospital Manual covers the range of procedures used on hospitalized adult horses and foals from the simple to the advanced.

The Equine Hospital Manual features:

• Basic skills including physical examination, blood collection, and bandaging
• Advanced skills including mechanical ventilation, lung biopsy and cardiac output measurement
• Designing and setting up an equine hospital
• Biosecurity
• Therapeutic drugs used in horses and their doses
• Nutrition for hospital patients, including TPN and PPN
• Fluid therapy - choices, amounts and pitfalls
• Anaesthesia - equipment, techniques and post-operative care including analgesia

Contents

1. Procedures In the Adult Horse
2. Procedures in the Neonatal Foal
3. Hospital Design and Organisation
4. Anaesthesia
5. Nutritional Management of the Hospitalised Horse
6. Common Treatments
7. Common Problems Encountered in the Hospitalised Horse
8. Monitoring and Treating the Coagulation System
9. Monitoring and Treating the Cardiovascular System
10. Monitoring and Treating the Respiratory System
11. Monitoring and Treating the Gastrointestinal System
12. Monitoring and Treating the Liver
13. Monitoring and Treating the Urogenital System
14. Monitoring and Treating the Neurological System
15. Monitoring and Treating Common Musculoskeletal Problems in Hospitalised Horses
16. Management of Horses with Problems of the Integument
17. Monitoring and Treatment of Eyes
18. Physiotherapy

Index

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