Equine Medicine and Surgery (2-Volume Set)

For the most extensive coverage of horse disease, look to EQUINE MEDICINE AND SURGERY. This comprehensive, two-volume text of medical and surgical diseases is organized by body systems, with introductory chapters on diagnostic approaches to common complaints, practice management, evaluation and diagnosis, and therapy. More than 1600 illustrations and numerous full-color plates enhance the new, expanded coverage of critical care, the neonate, farriery, breeding, infertility, and tendon and ligament injuries.

* Serves as a one-stop reference with comprehensive, up-to-date coverage of both equine medicine and surgery. * Provides a global perspective of equine medicine and surgery from authoritative, international contributors and editors. * Promotes decision making in the diagnostic process with a consistent organization of each body system chapter: examination, diagnostic aids, pathophysiology and principles of therapy, diseases affecting multiple sites, then diseases of each component of the system. * Uses color plates that clearly illustrate syndromes in the chapters on the respiratory, ocular, musculoskeletal, integumentary, and hemolymphatic systems.

Provides updated information on all aspects of equine practice.

Incorporates information from many new authoritative contributors who are on the cutting edge of the research

Includes over 1,250 illustrations (most are new) and new colour plates in the chapters on the respiratory and musculoskeletal systems.

Enhances the scope of coverage with new chapters on:

Practice management

Critical care, including the most current information on circulatory shock, endotoxemia, septicemia, ischemia-reperfusion injury, and disaster medicine

Chemical restraint, general anaesthesia, and surgery

Neonatal evaluation and management (plus new neonatal coverage integrated into each body system chapter)

Provides revised, updated, and expanded discussions of:

Exercise physiology tolerance testing, alternative medicine and acupuncture

Laminitis, including the latest research and prevention techniques

Equine protozoal myelitis

Farriery in a new section, written by a certified journeyman farrier, that includes more than 60 new illustrations and discusses shoes as therapeutic devices in treatment of lameness, bacterial and fungal infections, and tendon injuries

Thermography, accompanied by a new colour plate section

Neonatal therapy integrated into each body system chapter

Embryo transfer, breeding using chilled semen, and postbreeding endometritis as a cause of infertility that reflects up-to-the-minute research by the author

Ischemia-reperfusion injury, including all the latest research

Adds chapter outlines at the beginning of each chapter with page numbers, making information easier to access

Offers a new Manual of Equine Medicine and Surgery packaged with the book at a cost savings or available separately.