Now in full-color! Written by veterinarians, including many board-certified specialists, and veterinary technicians, this comprehensive textbook is divided into six major sections covering nearly all the major content areas in the veterinary technology curriculum. The text contains helpful learning features, including introductions, boxed technician tips, and suggested readings - all written at a level appropriate for technicians.
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<li>Comprehensive text covering all areas of the curriculum.</li>
<li>Written specifically for technicians.</li>
<li>Presents detailed information on the role of the technician in every aspect of veterinary practice.</li>
<li>Features helpful pedagogical aids such as introductions, suggested readings, and boxed Technician Tips.</li>
<li>CD in the back of the book contains student exercises, including crossword puzzles to help study key terms, picture-it exercises to test knowledge of key illustrations, quiz shows and hangman exercises to make self-study fun, and WebLinks. </li>
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<li>Three new chapters! Care of Geriatric Small Animal Patients, Toxicology, and Nursing Concepts in Alternative Medicine.</li>
<li>Diagnostic imaging chapter includes new sections on digital radiography, computed radiography, teleradiology, PACS (picture archival computing systems), and RIS (radiology information systems).</li>
<li>Emergency nursing chapter has been completely rewritten to address rapid changes in clinical knowledge in the field.</li>
<li>Behavior chapter has been completely rewritten to emphasize prevention of problems and the creation of wellness programs, and to focus on behavioral needs, assessment, and client teaching.</li>
<li>Birds, Reptiles, and Small Mammals chapter has a new section on behavioral considerations and includes information on feeding, diets, and care of increasingly popular pets: rats, prairie dogs, sugar gliders, and hedgehogs.</li>
<li>Pain management chapter includes new information of transdermal administration of Fentanyl and epidural administration of opioids. New drugs include hydromorphone, oxymorphone, deracoxib, and meloxicam.</li>
<li>Pharmacology and pharmacy chapter includes new sections on ivermectin toxicities, expiration dates and disposal of drugs, material data safety sheets, compounding, nutraceuticals, and internet pharmacy and concern about online sites.</li>
<li>Zoonoses and public health chapter includes up-to-date information on Q fever (coxiellosis), tularemia, and monkey pox.</li>
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Clinical Textbook for Veterinary Technicians Sixth Edition

Science & Math

Bassert VMD, Joanna M.

McCurnin DVM MS Dipl ACVS, Dennis M.

Agricultural Sciences

Saunders

Here's the 4th Edition of the most complete and up-to-date clinical text for veterinary technicians. This text encompasses the entire scope of veterinary medicine, as well as the rapidly expanding role and responsibilities of today's technician. Offers comprehensive, practical coverage from recognized specialists -- 21 new to this edition -- for large and small animals, including domestic, food, and wild species. Features 5 new chapters on zoonoses, nutrition for farm animals, personal leadership, professional development, and OSHA in veterinary hospitals. Plus, new "technician's notes" boxes provide easy access to essential information.

Clinical Textbook for Veterinary Technicians, 4e

Step-by-step visual guideline of key procedures in veterinary practice. Includes discussion and illustration of blood collection and injection techniques, IV catheterization and oral administration, eye and ear exams, urethral catheterization, rectal exam, intubation, dental prophylaxis, fine-needle aspiration, enema, CSF collection--and many more procedures from the standpoint of preparation, equipment needed, execution, and complications. Also presents physical diagnosis of each body system through observation, auscultation, percussion, and palpation; discusses and illustrates abnormalities within each body system. Each physical diagnosis chapter has an opening section on applied anatomy.

Small Animal Physical Diagnosis and Clinical Procedures

Poffenbarger DVM, Ellen M.

Here's the newest edition of the "gold standard" in the field! This comprehensive new edition covers nearly all the major content areas in the veterinary technology curriculum. Written by veterinarians (including many board-certified specialists) and veterinary technicians, it covers common clinical procedures, clinical sciences, animal husbandry, pharmacology, medical and surgical care of small and large animal species, practice management, and more. Completely updated and reorganized for a more logical flow of information, the new edition now progresses from basic procedures to clinical sciences to management of small, large, and exotic species. It also contains several hundred new photographs, helpful pedagogical aids, and many totally rewritten chapters.
<li>Comprehensive text written specifically for the technician, covering all areas of the curriculum.</li>Lavishly illustrated, with a Whos Who list of contributing authors.<li>Detailed information on the role of the technician in every aspect of veterinary practice.</li>Helpful pedagogical aids such as introductions, suggested readings, and boxed Technician Tips throughout.<li>New chapter on animal reproduction, detailing the technicians role in assessment, management, and answering client questions about reproductive health and enhancement.</li>New, expanded chapter on dentistry, reflecting greater involvement by technicians in preventive and corrective procedures.<li>Completely rewritten chapters on restraint, necropsy procedures, clinical pathology and clinical microbiology, emergency nursing, animal behavior, oncology, and computer applications.</li>Heavily revised sections include birds, reptiles, and small mammals; anesthesia, pain management, and pharmacology; surgery; and medical records.

Clinical Textbook for Veterinary Technicians

Considered a fundamental text in the field of veterinary technology, McCurnin’s Clinical Textbook for Veterinary Technicians is back in its 7th edition and better than ever! Written by veterinarians, including many board-certified specialists, and veterinary technicians who understand the vet tech curriculum, this text is full of everything you’ll need to know in your practice. Sections on small and large animals, birds, reptiles, and small mammals embrace every aspect of the veterinary field, while case presentations of actual patient situations link information to relevant, real-life scenarios you may encounter in future practice. Get it all with this extensive and practical text essential to the veterinary technician profession!
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<li>Full color visuals make learning easier with accurate depictions of specific disorders, diseases, and procedures. </li>
<li>Detailed information of the technician’s role in every procedure enables you to focus on your role in veterinary practice. </li>
<li> Birds, reptiles, and small mammals chapter keeps you up-to-date with care and treatment for these increasingly popular pets. </li>
<li> Chapters on pharmacology, pain management, restraint, and veterinary oncology offer a broader understanding of the responsibilities of a technician. </li>
<li> The TEACH manual provides instructors with teaching/learning objectives, key terms, critical thinking challenges, and chapter quizzes, while the workbook contains applied quizzes and activities for each chapter. </li>
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<li>New case presentations help link information to real life by illustrating scenarios of actual patient situations and outcomes.</li>
<li>Increased coverage of large animal concerns, such as nutrition, emergency nursing, pain management, and anesthesia, prepare you for potential patients. </li>
<li> New chapters on Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation, and Laws, Regulations, and Ethics, as well as expanded sections in Anesthesia, Nursing, and Dentistry provide the most comprehensive information. </li>
<li>Newly added key terms, glossary, outlines, boxed “Technician Tips, and learning objectives aid studying. </li>
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McCurnin's Clinical Textbook for Veterinary Technicians

Medical Books

Veterinary Medicine

Use this workbook to reinforce your understanding and improve your test scores. Designed to accompany McCurnin’s Clinical Textbook for Veterinary Technicians, 7th Edition, this workbook provides test questions and review exercises to help you apply what you’ve learned. The workbook corresponds to the textbook chapter for chapter! Review exercises include: 
<li>Chapter activities</li>
<li>Case studies</li>
<li>Photo quizzes</li>
<li>Matching exercises</li>
<li>Word searches</li>
<li>Crossword puzzles</li>
<li>Superclues</li>
<li>True/false, multiple-choice, and short-answer review questions</li>
<li>The answer key is on EVOLVE</li>

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