Veterinary Anesthesia and Analgesia, The 6th Edition of Lumb and Jones The 6th Edition of Lumb and Jones

Veterinary Anesthesia and Analgesia, 6th Edition: Your Foundational Reference

This book is a fully updated revision of the definitive, authoritative reference on veterinary anesthesia and pain management. Encompassing both scientific principles and clinical applications, this new edition adds new knowledge, techniques, and discussions of emerging issues throughout its fourteen new chapters.

Key Features

• Expanded Coverage: Fourteen new chapters significantly expand the coverage of patient monitoring modalities and nociception and pain. It also presents new information on safety culture, infection prevention and control, biomedical engineering, and point-of-care ultrasound.
• Broad Species and Body Systems: The book is logically organized into sections, making information on basic principles, pharmacology, specific body systems, and specific species easy to access. It includes comparative anesthetic considerations for dogs, cats, horses, ruminants, swine, laboratory animals, marine mammals, and other species.
• In-Depth Updates: You'll find significantly expanded coverage of patient monitoring and respiratory physiology and pathophysiology, with new sections on oxygen therapy, mechanical ventilation, and anesthetic management.
• Pain Management: It includes expanded coverage of pain physiology and pathophysiology, recognition and quantification of pain, and clinical pain management, including both pharmacologic and nonpharmacologic modalities.
• Digital Resources: A companion website offers video clips of point-of-care ultrasound techniques and pain assessment and scoring, complementing the more than 500 images in the text itself.
• Multidisciplinary Approach: With its unparalleled multidisciplinary approach, this is a must-own volume for veterinary anesthesia specialists and researchers, specialists in other disciplines, practitioners, and students.