Farm Animal Anesthesia: Cattle, Small Ruminants, Camelids, and Pigs

Your Comprehensive Guide to Farm Animal Anesthesia

This book is a completely revised and updated reference for farm animal anesthesia, sedation, and pain management. This practical and easy-to-use manual incorporates advances in surgical and diagnostic techniques, with the latest drugs and equipment, and new technique descriptions added throughout.

Key Features

• Updated Techniques: It offers additional and updated information on drug combinations and anesthetic techniques relevant to small ruminants and potbellied pigs.
• New Chapters and Topics: New chapters and topics on paralytic drugs, use of ventilators for advanced surgeries, updated local and regional anesthetic techniques, and comprehensive standing surgery and diagnostic procedures have been been added.
• Companion Website: Readers will also benefit from access to a companion website with video clips demonstrating local and regional anesthetic techniques described within.
• Comprehensive Coverage: It provides a thorough introduction to general preanesthetic considerations for ruminants, camelids, and potbellied pigs. It also offers a comprehensive exploration of commonly used preanesthetics and injectable anesthetics.
• Regulatory and Legal Considerations: It includes a complete review of regulatory and legal considerations of anesthetics and analgesics used in farm animals.
• Target Audience: An indispensable resource for farm animal practitioners, veterinary surgeons, veterinary anesthetists, and researchers, as well as for veterinary students and residents in surgery and anesthesia.