Advanced Monitoring and Procedures for Small Animal Emergency and Critical Care

Content: Advanced Monitoring and Procedures for Small Animal Emergency and Critical Care
 Contents
 Contributors
 Preface
 SECTION I: Introduction
 1: Triage
 2: The small animal emergency room
 3: ICU design
 SECTION II: Cardiovascular
 4: Catheterization of the venous compartment
 5: Arterial puncture and catheterization
 6: Principles of electrocardiography
 7: Electrocardiogram interpretation
 8: Fluid-f?illed hemodynamic monitoring systems
 9: Direct systemic arterial blood pressure monitoring
 10: Noninvasive arterial blood pressure monitoring
 11: Central venous pressure monitoring. 12: Cardiac output monitoring13: Bedside echocardiography
 14: Pericardiocentesis
 15: Monitoring tissue perfusion: clinicopathologic aids and advanced techniques
 16: Cardiopulmonary cerebral resuscitation
 17: Open-chest cardiopulmonary cerebral resuscitation
 18: Defibrillation
 19: Temporary cardiac pacing
 SECTION III: Respiratory
 20: Oxygen therapy
 21: Pulse oximetry and CO-oximetry
 22: Blood gas analysis
 23: Tracheal intubation
 24: Temporary tracheostomy
 25: Artificial airway management
 26: Capnography
 27: Mechanical ventilation
 28: Ventilator waveform analysis. 29: High-frequency ventilation30: Pleural space drainage
 SECTION IV: Urinary and abdominal
 31: Urethral catheterization
 32: Urinalysis in acutely and critically ill dogs and cats
 33: Peritoneal dialysis
 34: Technical management of hemodialysis patients
 35: Peritoneal evaluation
 36: Specialized gastrointestinal techniques
 37: Postoperative peritoneal drainage techniques
 SECTION V: Nutrition
 38: Nutritional requirements in critical illness
 39: Enteral diets for critically ill patients
 40: Assisted enteral feeding
 41: Parenteral nutrition
 SECTION VI: Analgesia and anesthesia. 42: Pain recognition and management43: Systemic analgesia
 44: Local analgesia
 45: Monitoring the anesthetized patient
 46: Nursing care of the long-term anesthetized patient
 SECTION VII: Clinicopathologic techniques
 47: Blood sample collection and handling
 48: In-house hematologic evaluation
 49: Electrolyte evaluation
 50: Acid-base evaluation
 51: Osmolality and colloid osmotic pressure
 52: Cytology
 53: Blood typing and cross-matching
 SECTION VIII: Infection control
 54: Minimizing nosocomial infection
 55: Care of indwelling device insertion sites. 56: Antiseptics, disinfectants, and sterilization57: Personnel precautions for patients with zoonotic disease
 SECTION IX: Specific nursing considerations
 58: Drug administration
 59: Administration of biological products
 60: Blood glucose monitoring and glycemic control
 61: Care of the patient with intracranial disease
 62: Care of the environmentally injured animal
 63: Safe handling and care of patients exposed to radioactive and antineoplastic agents
 64: Medical charting
 65: Compassion fatigue: healing with a heart
 Index.