Short description
Offers information on various aspects of small animal surgery. This title includes coverage on basic procedures such as spays, castrations, and declaws, as well as more advanced surgeries that might be referred to specialists such as craniotomy, ventral slots, and lung lobectomy.
Long description
The edition of this classic textbook continues to serve as a one-stop resource for authoritative information on all aspects of small animal surgery and provides an online fully searchable version of the book. Coverage includes basic procedures such as spays, castrations, and declaws, as well as more advanced surgeries that might be referred to specialists such as craniotomy, ventral slots, and lung lobectomy. Discussions of general surgical procedures include sterile technique, surgical instrumentation, suturing, preoperative care, and antibiotic use. Key sections provide clinically relevant coverage of soft tissue surgery, orthopedic surgery, and neurosurgery. The online version offers weekly updates as well as case studies, aftercare instructions, and abstracts of relevant articles.
Review
The book itself is again a masterpiece for the veterinary surgeon with well explained text, drawings and tables. The use of different symbols and colours in the text makes things very clear.
I was please to see the more recent orthopaedic procedures such as TPLO, TWO and TTA for the repair of cranial cruciate ligaments being so well described. A lot of attention is also spent on analgesia, with clear tables and dosages being provided.
Regarding the e-dition or online: this is a great improvement! Excellent features include:
-good searching system, very fast
-good quality pictures (they can be stored)
-frequent updates (weekly)
-reference links to PubMed with access to the full-text articles
-videoclips (good quality images)
-aftercare instructions
-interactive fracture planner
-POCKETConsult TM for PDA
-case presentations
-and many other useful features
veterinary surgeons (those just staring as well as more experienced surgeons) who are really interested in what they are doing during surgery, should have this book in their library.
.It is worth every Euro!
Reviewed by Johan van Tilburg DVM(B), for EJCAP, vol 17, October 2007
Table of contents
- Part I: General surgical principles 1. Principles of surgical asepsis 2. Sterilization and disinfection 3. Surgical facilities, equipment, and personnel 4. Care and maintenance of the surgical environment 5. Preoperative and Inraoperative Care of the surgical patient 6. Preparation of the operative site 7. Preparation of the surgical team 8. Surgical instrumentation 9. Biomaterials, suturing and hemostasis 10. Surgical infections and antibiotic selection 11. Postoperative care of the surgical patient 12. Fundamentals of physical rehabilitation 13. Perioperative Multimodal Analgesic Therapy 14. Principles of minimally invasive surgery Part II: Soft tissue surgery 15. Surgery of the integumentary system 16. Surgery of the eye 17. Surgery of the ear 18. Surgery of the abdominal cavity 19. Surgery of the digestive system 20. Surgery of the liver 21. Surgery of the extrahepatic biliary system 22. Surgery of the endocrine system 23. Surgery of the hemolymphatic system 24. Surgery of the kidney and ureter 25. Surgery of the bladder and urethra 26. Surgery of the reproductive and genital systems 27. Surgery of the cardiovascular system 28. Surgery of the upper respiratory system 29. Surgery of the lower respiratory system: lungs and thoracic wall 30. Surgery of the lower respiratory system: pleural cavity and diaphragm Part III: Orthopedics 31. Fundamentals of orthopedic surgery and Fracture Management 32. Management of specific fractures 33. Diseases of the joints 34. Management of muscle and tendon injury or disease 35. Other diseases of bones and joints Part IV: Neurosurgery 36. Fundamentals of neurosurgery 37. Surgery of the brain 38. Surgery of the cervical spine 39. Surgery of the thoracolumbar spine 40. Surgery of the lumbosacral spine 41. Nonsurgical diseases of the spine