Notes on Feline Internal Medicine.
Title:
Notes on Feline Internal Medicine.
Author:
Sturgess, Kit.
ISBN:
9781118597712
Personal Author:
Edition:
2nd ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (442 pages)
Contents:
NOTES ON FELINE INTERNAL MEDICINE -- CONTENTS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- INTRODUCTION -- SECTION 1 KEY TOPICS IN FELINE MEDICINE -- 1.1 HEALTH SCREENING -- 1.1.1 Introduction -- 1.1.2 Which cats to screen and what screening tests to use -- 1.1.3 Interpreting the test results and developing an action plan -- 1.1.4 Screening for neoplasia -- 1.2 PREVENTATIVE MEDICINE -- 1.2.1 Vaccination -- 1.2.2 Parasite control -- 1.3 PAEDIATRICS -- 1.3.1 Introduction -- 1.3.2 Evaluating the paediatric patient -- 1.3.3 Investigation of neonatal disease -- 1.3.4 Treatment of the paediatric patient -- 1.3.5 Common infectious diseases of kittens -- 1.3.6 Neonatal isoerythrolysis -- 1.3.7 Fading kitten syndrome -- 1.3.8 Pain relief -- 1.4 GERONTOLOGY -- 1.4.1 Introduction -- 1.4.2 Effects of ageing -- 1.4.3 Nutritional changes -- 1.4.4 Common diseases of elderly cats -- 1.4.5 Assessment of the elderly cat -- 1.4.6 Therapeutic considerations -- 1.5 SUPPORTIVE CARE - FLUID THERAPY AND ANALGESIA -- 1.5.1 General principles -- 1.5.2 Fluid therapy -- 1.5.3 Analgesia -- 1.6 SEDATION AND ANAESTHESIA -- 1.6.1 Introduction -- 1.6.2 Pre-procedure assessment -- 1.6.3 Sedative protocols -- 1.6.4 Anaesthetic protocols -- 1.7 EMERGENCY AND CRITICAL CARE ALGORITHMS -- 1.7.1 Introduction -- 1.7.2 Trauma/RTA -- 1.7.3 Dyspnoea -- 1.7.4 Collapse -- 1.7.5 Urinary obstruction -- 1.7.6 Seizures -- 1.7.7 CPCR -- SECTION 2 CLINICAL SIGNS -- INTRODUCTION -- 2.1 ABDOMINAL ENLARGEMENT -- 2.1.1 Introduction -- 2.1.2 Causes -- 2.1.3 Key history -- 2.1.4 Focus of physical examination -- 2.1.5 Decision making -- 2.1.6 Diagnostic approach -- 2.1.7 Management and therapy -- 2.2 ANOREXIA -- 2.2.1 Introduction -- 2.2.2 Causes -- 2.2.3 Key history -- 2.2.4 Focus of physical examination -- 2.2.5 Decision making -- 2.2.6 Diagnostic approach -- 2.2.7 Management and therapy -- 2.3 ARRHYTHMIAS.
2.3.1 Introduction -- 2.3.2 Causes (Table 15) -- 2.3.3 Key history -- 2.3.4 Focus of physical examination -- 2.3.5 Decision making -- 2.3.6 Diagnostic approach (Table 14 page 40-41) -- 2.3.7 Management and therapy -- 2.4 ASCITES AND PERITONEAL EFFUSIONS -- 2.4.1 Introduction -- 2.4.2 Causes -- 2.4.3 Key history -- 2.4.4 Focus of physical examination -- 2.4.5 Decision making -- 2.4.6 Diagnostic approach -- 2.4.7 Management and therapeutic approach -- 2.4.8 Specifi c conditions -- 2.5 ATAXIA -- 2.5.1 Introduction -- 2.5.2 Causes -- 2.5.3 Key history -- 2.5.4 Focus of physical examination -- 2.5.5 Decision making -- 2.5.6 Diagnostic approach (see table 14 page 40-41) -- 2.5.7 Management and therapy -- 2.5.8 Specifi c conditions -- 2.6 BEHAVIOURAL CHANGES -- 2.6.1 Introduction -- 2.6.2 Causes -- 2.7 BLEEDING/ COAGULOPATHIES -- 2.7.1 Introduction -- 2.7.2 Causes -- 2.7.3 Key history -- 2.7.4 Focus of physical examination -- 2.7.5 Decision making -- 2.7.6 Diagnostic approach -- 2.7.7 Management and therapy -- 2.8 BODY ODOUR -- 2.8.1 Introduction -- 2.8.2 Causes -- 2.8.3 Key history -- 2.8.4 Focus of physical examination -- 2.8.5 Decision making -- 2.8.6 Diagnostic approach -- 2.8.7 Management and therapy -- 2.9 COLLAPSE, SYNCOPE AND WEAKNESS -- 2.9.1 Introduction -- 2.9.2 Causes -- 2.9.3 Key history -- 2.9.4 Focus of physical examination -- 2.9.5 Decision making -- 2.9.6 Diagnostic approach -- 2.9.7 Management and therapy -- 2.10 CARDIAC MURMURS -- 2.10.1 Introduction -- 2.10.2 Causes -- 2.10.3 Key history -- 2.10.4 Focus of physical examination -- 2.10.5 Decision making -- 2.10.6 Diagnostic approach -- 2.10.7 Management and therapy -- 2.11 CONSTIPATION, TENESMUS AND DYSCHEZIA -- 2.11.1 Introduction -- 2.11.2 Causes -- 2.11.3 Key history -- 2.11.4 Focus of physical examination -- 2.11.5 Decision making -- 2.11.6 Diagnostic approach (Table 14 page 40-41).
2.11.7 Management and therapy -- 2.12 CHRONIC COUGHING -- 2.12.1 Introduction -- 2.12.2 Causes -- 2.12.3 Key history -- 2.12.4 Focus of physical examination -- 2.12.5 Decision making -- 2.12.6 Diagnostic approach -- 2.12.7 Management and therapy -- 2.12.8 Approach to the coughing cat (Figure 6) -- 2.13 DIARRHOEA -- 2.13.1 Introduction -- 2.13.2 Causes -- 2.13.3 Key history -- 2.13.4 Focus of physical examination -- 2.13.5 Decision making -- 2.13.6 Diagnostic approach (Table 17 page 40-41) -- 2.13.7 Management and therapy -- 2.14 DYSPHAGIA -- 2.14.1 Introduction -- 2.14.2 Causes -- 2.14.3 Key history -- 2.14.4 Focus of physical examination -- 2.14.5 Decision making -- 2.14.6 Diagnostic approach -- 2.14.7 Management and therapy -- 2.15 DYSPNOEA (RESPIRATORY DISTRESS) -- 2.15.1 Introduction -- 2.15.2 Causes -- 2.15.3 Key history -- 2.15.4 Focus of physical examination -- 2.15.5 Decision making (Figure 7) -- 2.15.6 Diagnostic approach -- 2.15.7 Management and therapy -- 2.15.8 Approach to the dyspnoeic cat -- 2.16 DYSURIA -- 2.16.1 Introduction -- 2.16.2 Causes -- 2.16.3 Key history -- 2.16.4 Focus of physical examination -- 2.16.5 Decision making -- 2.16.6 Diagnostic approach (Table 14 page 40-41) -- 2.16.7 Management and therapy -- 2.17 FAILURE TO GROW -- 2.17.1 Introduction -- 2.17.2 Causes -- 2.17.3 Key history -- 2.17.4 Focus of physical examination -- 2.17.5 Decision making -- 2.17.6 Diagnostic approach -- 2.17.7 Management and therapy -- 2.18 FLATULENCE -- 2.18.1 Introduction -- 2.18.2 Causes -- 2.18.3 Key history -- 2.18.4 Focus of physical examination -- 2.18.5 Decision making -- 2.18.6 Diagnostic approach -- 2.18.7 Management and therapy -- 2.19 HAEMATEMESIS, HAEMOPTYSIS AND EPISTAXIS -- 2.19.1 Introduction -- 2.19.2 Causes -- 2.19.3 Key history -- 2.19.4 Focus of physical examination -- 2.19.5 Decision making -- 2.19.6 Diagnostic approach.
2.19.7 Management and therapy -- 2.20 HAEMATOCHEZIA AND MELAENA -- 2.20.1 Introduction -- 2.20.2 Causes -- 2.20.3 Key history -- 2.20.4 Focus of physical examination -- 2.20.5 Decision making -- 2.20.6 Diagnostic approach -- 2.20.7 Management and therapy -- 2.21 HAEMATURIA AND HAEMOGLOBINURIA -- 2.21.1 Introduction -- 2.21.2 Causes -- 2.21.3 Key history -- 2.21.4 Focus of physical examination -- 2.21.5 Decision making -- 2.21.6 Diagnostic approach (Table 14 page 40-41) -- 2.21.7 Management and therapy -- 2.22 HYPOTHERMIA -- 2.22.1 Introduction -- 2.22.2 Causes -- 2.22.3 Key history -- 2.22.4 Focus of physical examination -- 2.22.5 Decision making -- 2.22.6 Diagnostic approach -- 2.22.7 Management and therapy -- 2.23 INCONTINENCE (URINARY) -- 2.23.1 Introduction -- 2.23.2 Causes -- 2.23.3 Key history -- 2.23.4 Focus of physical examination -- 2.23.5 Decision making -- 2.23.6 Diagnostic approach -- 2.23.7 Management and therapy -- 2.24 INCONTINENCE ( FAECAL) -- 2.24.1 Introduction -- 2.24.2 Causes -- 2.24.3 Key history -- 2.24.4 Focus of physical examination -- 2.24.5 Decision making -- 2.24.6 Diagnostic approach -- 2.24.7 Management and therapy -- 2.25 INFERT I L I T Y - QUEENS -- 2.25.1 Introduction -- 2.25.2 Causes -- 2.25.3 Key history -- 2.25.4 Focus of physical examination -- 2.25.5 Decision making -- 2.25.6 Diagnostic approach (Table 14 page 40-41) -- 2.25.7 Management and therapy -- 2.26 INFERT I L I T Y - TOMCATS -- 2.26.1 Introduction -- 2.26.2 Causes -- 2.26.3 Key history -- 2.26.4 Focus of physical examination -- 2.26.5 Decision making -- 2.26.6 Diagnostic approach -- 2.26.7 Management and therapy -- 2.27 JAUNDICE (ICTERUS) -- 2.27.1 Introduction -- 2.27.2 Causes of hyperbilirubinaemia -- 2.27.3 Key history -- 2.27.4 Focus of physical examination -- 2.27.5 Decision making -- 2.27.6 Diagnostic approach -- 2.27.7 Management and therapy.
2.28 LYMPHADENOPATHY -- 2.28.1 Introduction -- 2.28.2 Causes -- 2.28.3 Key history -- 2.28.4 Focus of physical examination -- 2.28.5 Decision making -- 2.28.6 Diagnostic approach -- 2.28.7 Management and therapy -- 2.29 OCULAR CHANGES CAUSED BY SYSTEMIC DISEASE -- 2.29.1 Introduction -- 2.29.2 Causes -- 2.29.3 History, physical examination, decision making and diagnosis -- 2.29.4 Management and therapy -- 2.30 PALLOR -- 2.30.1 Introduction -- 2.30.2 Causes (Figure 10) -- 2.30.3 Key history -- 2.30.4 Focus of physical examination -- 2.30.5 Decision making -- 2.30.6 Diagnostic approach -- 2.30.7 Management and therapy -- 2.31 PARESIS AND PARALYSIS -- 2.31.1 Introduction -- 2.31.2 Causes -- 2.31.3 Key history -- 2.31.4 Focus of physical examination -- 2.31.5 Decision making -- 2.31.6 Diagnostic approach -- 2.31.7 Management and therapy -- 2.32 POLYPHAGIA -- 2.32.1 Introduction -- 2.32.2 Causes of secondary polyphagia -- 2.32.3 Key history -- 2.32.4 Focus of physical examination -- 2.32.5 Decision making -- 2.32.6 Diagnostic approach -- 2.32.7 Management and therapy -- 2.33 POLYURIA/ POLYDIPSIA -- 2.33.1 Introduction -- 2.33.2 Causes -- 2.33.3 Key history -- 2.33.4 Focus of physical examination -- 2.33.5 Decision making -- 2.33.6 Diagnostic approach -- 2.33.7 Management and therapy -- 2.34 PTYALISM -- 2.34.1 Introduction -- 2.34.2 Causes -- 2.34.3 Key history -- 2.34.4 Focus of physical examination -- 2.34.5 Decision making -- 2.34.6 Diagnostic approach -- 2.34.7 Management and therapy -- 2.35 PYREXIA (FEVER) OF UNKNOWN ORIGIN - PUO (FUO) -- 2.35.1 Introduction -- 2.35.2 Causes -- 2.35.3 Key history -- 2.35.4 Focus of physical examination -- 2.35.5 Decision making -- 2.35.6 Diagnostic approach -- 2.35.7 Management and therapy -- 2.36 REGURGITATION -- 2.36.1 Introduction -- 2.36.2 Causes -- 2.36.3 Key history -- 2.36.4 Focus of physical examination.
2.36.5 Decision making.
Abstract:
Helping you get started with a problem solving approach to a sick cat. Notes on Feline Internal Medicine 2nd edition is part of a popular series specifically designed, through an accessible note-based style, to ensure veterinarians and students have quick and easy access to comprehensive and practical clinical and diagnostic information. Distinct differences exist between cats and dogs not only in their physiology and metabolism but also in the way disease tends to present. This book is a short 'pocket guide' to feline internal medicine helping you to formulate a diagnostic plan and therapeutic strategy. The focus is on evidence-based medicine where available, otherwise current best practice is presented. The book is divided into four sections: Section 1 gives an overview of some key areas of feline medicine including paediatric and geriatric medicine. Section 2 focuses on the approach to common presenting signs and differential diagnosis of commonly used haematologic and biochemical parameters. Section 3 presents an organ system based approach Section 4 covers feline infectious diseases. A selection of useful texts and websites for further reading are included at the end of the book. CHANGES FOR THIS EDITION Stronger focus is placed on initial testing for a disease, and what changes might be expected. Additional sections have been added on sedation and anaesthesia, health screening, oncology and emergency and critical care. More diagrams added to aid understanding. Care taken to avoid repetition and focus placed on common conditions.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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