Large Animal Clinical Procedures for Veterinary Technicians: 4ed

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Large Animal Clinical Procedures for Veterinary Technicians: 4ed

Gain the skills you need to master the role of the veterinary technician in large animal care! Large Animal Clinical Procedures for Veterinary Technicians, 4th Edition teaches you how to set up, assist, and follow through on medical procedures and treatment regimens for large domestic animals.

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Large Animal Clinical Procedures for Veterinary Technicians: 4ed

Gain the skills you need to master the role of the veterinary technician in large animal care! Large Animal Clinical Procedures for Veterinary Technicians, 4th Edition teaches you how to set up, assist, and follow through on medical procedures and treatment regimens for large domestic animals. A comprehensive guide, this text not only defines the veterinary technician’s responsibilities in daily livestock care and hospital management, but includes separate sections on horses, cattle, sheep and goats, pigs, and llamas and alpacas - covering husbandry, clinical procedures, surgical procedures, and common diseases for each. This new edition includes information on safety and handling, livestock nutrition, vaccine scheduling, and diagnostic imaging, plus four new chapters with detailed care of poultry. Written by noted veterinary technician educator Kristin Holtgrew-Bohling, it is the ideal text for preparing for certification exams and everyday practice!

  • The most comprehensive large animal book specifically written for veterinary technician students.
  • A practical approach makes this text useful in classes and in clinical situations, so veterinary technicians, acting under instructions of veterinarians, can plan and follow through on procedures and treatment regimens for large animals.
  • A focus on the veterinary technician’s responsibilities explains why and how a procedure is performed, and the roles that vet techs fill in preparing for, assisting in, and following up the procedure.
  • Coverage of the essential large animal-related tasks in the CVTEA Manual of Accreditation for Veterinary Technology Programsaddresses AVMA accreditation and prepares you to pass the Veterinary Technology National Exam.
  • Full-color photographs and line drawings show step-by-step procedures in areas such as restraint, bandaging, physical examination techniques, and diagnostic procedures.
  • Coverage of husbandry and breeds demonstrates how day-to-day housing and feeding affect the care of many large animal diseases, and helps you learn to provide quality client education.
  • A section on the livestock industry provides comprehensive coverage of safety and handling, reproduction, and nutrition, so you can better understand the practices, procedures, and decisions in large animal veterinary medicine.
  • A section on llamas and alpacas helps you to understand the health and maintenance of these increasingly popular domestic animals ― in the U.S., there are more than 12,000 alpaca herds and 25,000 llama owners.
  • Proper medical terminology is included in a comprehensive glossary, facilitating effective communication with clients and with other professionals.
  • Learning features enhance your critical thinking and decision making with case studies, clinical applications, key terms, chapter outlines, learning objectives, and Technician Notes.
  • NEW! Tables on Temperature, Pulse, Respiration (TPR) data and vaccine schedules provide a quick, at-a-glance reference for important information.
  • NEW! Expanded regulatory information for livestock provides details on OCV vaccination, Health Certificate forms, Brucellosis and Tuberculosis testing, and Scrapies tags. 
  • NEW! Four new chapters on Poultry provide detailed coverage of the breed.
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Author Holtgrew-Bohling, Kristin J.
Pages 720
Year 2019
ISBN 9780323569040
Publisher Elsevier
Language English
Uncategorized
Edition 4/e
Weight 1.5 kg
Dimensions 21.59 x 27.3 x 3.18 cm
Binding Paperback