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Technical Large Animal Emergency Rescue
Kimberly Anne May
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Rebecca Gimenez
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editore: Iowa State University Press
pagine: 440
The recognition of the importance of safe large animal rescue is quickly growing. The prevailing attitude of large animal owners, whose animals are often pets or a large financial investment, is to demand the safe rescue and treatment of their large animals in emergency situations. Technical Large Animal Emergency Rescue is a guide for equine, large animal, and mixed animal veterinarians, zoo and wildlife veterinarians, vet techs, and emergency responders on how to rescue and treat large animals in critical situations while maintaining the safety of both the animal and the rescuer. This book is a must have reference for any individual who deals with large animals in emergency situations.
Enhancement Orthodontics
Theory and Practice
Marc Bernard Ackerman
editore: Iowa State University Press
pagine: 160
Enhancement Orthodontics: Theory and Practice provides a concise and compact clinical guide to achieving esthetic results through orthodontics. Challenging the accepted wisdom of the past, it offers a fresh look at orthodontic treatment, using a patient-centered paradigm for enhancing the appearance, function, and health of the dentofacial features. A mixture of clinical cases and decision-making coaching delivers an easy-to-follow guide to the prevailing clinical scenarios and how to treat them. Dwelling not merely on the intra-oral results, Enhancement Orthodontics demonstrates how to employ whole-face analysis to improve overall dentofacial appearance.
Invertebrate Medicine
Gregory A. Lewbart
editore: Iowa State University Press
pagine: 356
Invertebrate Medicine is the single most comprehensive resource available today on invertebrate animal medicine. Public and private aquarists, aquaculturists, and veterinarians in zoo animal, exotic animal and laboratory animal medicine will all find this book an irreplaceable source of information on many of the animals they care for or treat. Coverage includes sponges, jellyfish, anemones, corals, mollusks, starfish, sea urchins, crabs, crayfish, lobsters, shrimp, hermit crabs, spiders, scorpions, and dozens more. Although coverage is broad, emphasis is on invertebrates harvested for food or kept in captivity as pets, for display, or as research animals. The book's organization is easy to follow, with chapters dividing up invertebrates taxonomically. Each chapter includes the natural history of the group, anatomy and physiology, environmental disorders, preventative medicine, infectious diseases, common miscellaneous disorders, analgesia, anesthesia and surgery, treatment protocols and formularies. Amply illustrated in color and black and white, Invertebrate Medicine is sure to become the classic reference on invertebrate animal medicine.
Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care Procedures
Elisa M. Mazzaferro , Timothy B. Hackett
editore: Iowa State University Press
pagine: 208
Veterinary emergency and critical care medicine is a vitally important area of veterinary medicine. General practitioners and specialists alike are all, at one time or another, called upon to perform emergency and critical care to a patient in need. This text is a valuable source of information for any veterinarian treating clients in an emergency situation. Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care Procedures provides the reader with an illustrated, step-by-step breakdown of key emergency and critical care procedures. With hundreds of photos, an introduction to each procedure, indications, contraindications, and lists of needed supplies this text provides vital information for those in emergency and critical care situations. Written by two leading emergency and critical care specialists with extensive clinical experience, Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care Procedures is a must have reference for all practicing veterinarians.
Concise Encyclopedia of Periodontology
David C. Vandersall
editore: Iowa State University Press
pagine: 220
The Concise Encyclopedia of Periodontology offers an indispensable guide to the terminology, technical vocabulary, classic clinical cases, and literature of periodontology. A concise, succinct, and portable adjunct to traditional textbooks, it enables readers to search the literature by cross-referencing terms to classic and modern sources and to review specific areas of the subject, easily guiding them through the mass of periodontology sources. The Concise Encyclopedia of Periodontology comprises fully referenced definitions of key perio terms, highlighting the classic literature and influential names associated with each sub-set of periodontology. In addition, there are two further sections of references listed by author and literature cross-referenced to author and procedures. Perfect for the post-graduate student in periodontology, periodontology residents, and those preparing for Board accreditation, adherents of other specialties, especially students of general dentistry and dental hygiene, will also find it a quick and easy way to acquaint themselves with the fundamentals of the subject. A thorough and scholarly tool to aid the study of periodontology.
Manual of Minor Oral Surgery for the General Dentist
Karl R. Koerner
editore: Iowa State University Press
pagine: 320
The Manual of Minor Oral Surgery for the General Dentist provides a clear and thorough practical guide to performing the common surgical procedures encountered in dental offices on a day-to-day basis. Building on a sound basis of the proper protocols and appropriate standards of care, the book approaches each procedure through detailed, step-by-step description and illustration. Richly illustrated with clinical photography, the Manual of Minor Oral Surgery offers dentists an indispensable tool to carry out their everyday work, as well as providing information on more advanced procedures for those experienced dentists wishing to develop professionally.
Nutrition and Diet Therapy
A Reference Dictionary
Rosalinda T. Lagua , Virginia S. Claudio
editore: Iowa State University Press
pagine: 407
Filling the need unmet by today's medical dictionaries, the new fifth edition of "Nutrition and Diet Therapy Reference Dictionary", is the most comprehensive dictionary covering nutrition and diet therapy available for health care professionals. In this wide-ranging, authoritative volume, authors Lagua and Claudio cover all aspects of nutrition, including assessment, drug nutrient interactions, laboratory interpretations, enteral and parenteral nutrition support, community and public health nutrition programs, and nutrition throughout the life cycle. Much more than a dictionary, the word entries don't just define, but include the main reasons for suggested nutrition therapy and dietary guidelines, foods allowed, and avoided.The coverage includes such topics as nutrition and the immune system, phytonutrients, functional foods, alternative medicine, and the new standard for dietary reference intakes. Special features of the Dictionary are entries on 160 different diets; nutrition therapy for more than 360 disorders, including inborn-errors of metabolism; 170 drugs and their effects on nutrition; and more than 150 nutritional products with their main uses and composition.
Of particular importance are topics of public health concerns for the second millennium, and dietary recommendations for prevention of major degenerative diseases such as obesity, coronary heart disease, hypertension, diabetes mellitus, and cancer.The extensive Appendices include over 50 tables, forms, and charts that enrich the word definitions and serve as essential reference aids for the health care professional. With more than 3,200 carefully selected entries, the new fifth edition includes 700 new terms and more than 600 revised and expanded definitions. Terms have been meticulously chosen based on their frequency of use and importance in nutrition. All practitioners in the fields of nutrition and dietetics, as well as educators, students, and others interested in nutrition will find the updated, new edition of "Nutrition and Diet Therapy Reference Dictionary" a compact, handy, yet comprehensive reference tool covering almost all aspects of nutrition and dietetics.
Reconstructive Aesthetic Implant Surgery
Abd El Salam El Askary
editore: Iowa State University Press
pagine: 156
The field of implant dentistry has significantly grown in recent years, yet balancing natural-looking aesthetics with long-term function still remains a clinical challenge. This unique reference text provides experienced dental practitioners and students with a step-by-step clinical guide for achieving optimal aesthetic results with dental implants. The book's "hands-on" approach to dental implant aesthetics guides readers through the labyrinth of clinical decision-making and presents a solid foundation of scientific research, complete clinical cases, and documented techniques that simplify procedures and solve many of the aesthetic problems encountered in daily practice. A respected clinician, international speaker, researcher and practitioner in the field of dental implant aesthetics, Dr. El Askary highlights strategies and techniques to address many of the clinical pitfalls and complications associated with aesthetic dental implant restorations. Contents include an introduction to the field of aesthetic implant dentistry, presurgical considerations, aesthetic implant placement, soft tissue management and aesthetic bone grafting.
"Reconstructive Aesthetic Implant Surgery" contains current topics in aesthetic implantology, hundreds of full-color photographs and illustrations, case reports that apply the latest advancements in clinical techniques, and comprehensive references to related research. Specifically designed to improve surgical, prosthetic, and case design skills, "Reconstructive Aesthetic Implant Surgery" is a valuable learning tool for practitioners and students in periodontics, prosthodontics, oral and maxillofacial surgery, and general dentistry.
McDonald's Veterinary Endocrinology and Reproduction
Mauricio Pineda , Michael Dooley
editore: Iowa State University Press
pagine: 597
An updated edition providing students of veterinary medicine and animal science with a concise and practical textbook specifically for endocrinology and reproduction in domestic animals.
Veterinary Parasitology Reference Manual
William J. Foreyt
editore: Iowa State University Press
pagine: 235
"Veterinary Parasitology Reference Manual, Fifth Edition" provides easy access to pertinent information on parasite life cycles, importance, location in host, zoonotic potential, current literature, diagnosis, and treatment. Chapters are organized by animal host species, including laboratory animals, humans, llamas, ratites, dogs, cats, ruminants, horses, pigs, and birds, as well as reptiles, wildlife, and marine animals, often missing from veterinary parasitology textbooks, but of practical interest to veterinarians. The manual includes step-by-step instructions for the most common diagnostic procedures used in routine veterinary practice. Features of the fifth edition include: Updated and enhanced references; Information on new drugs; Improved parasites of marine mammals section; Sections on laboratory animal parasites and human parasites; and over 500 photographs and figures. Foreyt underscores the strong relationship between parasites and the overall health of animals and stresses that indiscriminate use of drugs is a poor substitute for good management and nutrition in controlling parasites.
The text also offers insights into the evolving relationships between hosts and parasites. Wildlife and zoo workers, veterinary practitioners, students, and technicians will find this to be a readable and accurate resource of information about parasites in a variety of animals - wild, domestic, common and exotic.
Feline Cardiology
Etienne Cote
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Kathryn M. Meurs
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editore: Iowa State University Press
pagine: 512
Feline Cardiology is the first book dedicated to the diagnosis and treatment of heart disease in cats. Designed for use in clinical practice, this reference combines cutting-edge information with practical applications, using a consistent format for ease of use. Feline Cardiology provides detailed, species-specific information that is absent from other texts, with an emphasis on the most commonly encountered feline cardiovascular diseases.
Drawing on the expertise of four internationally recognized authors, the book is packed with state-of-the-art information within the framework of daily practice. Coverage ranges from basic and advanced treatment approaches for cardiomyopathies, arrhythmias, and many other disorders to the newest information on genetic testing, circulating markers of heart disease, and more. Feline Cardiology provides a comprehensive single resource to managing cardiovascular disease in cats and is a welcome addition to any small animal practice library.
Equine Reproduction
Angus O. McKinnon
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Dickson D. Varner
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editore: Iowa State University Press
pagine: 3288
Now in a much-anticipated two-volume new edition, this gold-standard reference stands as the most comprehensive and authoritative text on equine reproduction. Serving theriogenologists, practitioners and breeders worldwide as a one-stop resource for the reproductive assessment and management of equine patients, Equine Reproduction, Second Edition provides detailed information on examination techniques, breeding procedures, pregnancy diagnosis and management, reproductive tract diseases and surgery, and foaling. A companion CD offers hundreds of images from the book in color. For the Second Edition, the stallion, mare and foal sections have been thoroughly updated and revised to include the latest information on every subject. New topics include discussion of nutritional and behavioral factors in the broodmare and stallion, parentage testing, fetal sexing and the health and management of older foals, weanlings and yearlings. Additionally, this outstanding Second Edition features a new section on assisted reproductive techniques, including detailed information on artificial insemination, in-vitro fertilization, embryo transfer and technology.
