Current therapy in equine medicine / [edited by] N. Edward Robinson, Kim A. Sprayberry.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Robinson, N. E. (Norman Edward)

Sprayberry, Kim A.

ebrary, Inc.

Clarence J. Marshall Memorial Library Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Horses--Diseases.

Horses.

Horse Diseases--therapy.

Veterinary Medicine--methods.

Medical Subjects:

Horse Diseases--therapy.

Veterinary Medicine--methods.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxx, 1066 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color)

polychrome

Edition:

Sixth edition.

Place of Publication:

St. Louis, Mo. : Saunders Elsevier, [2009]

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Section I. Clinical pharmacology.

Adverse drug readtions / Jennifer L. Davis.

Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs / Anthony T. Blikslager.

Update on common antimicrobials / K. Gary Magdesian.

Systemic chemotherapy for oncologic diseases / Teresa A. Burns, C. Guillermo Couto.

Fluphenazine toxicosis / Michael Brashier.

Field anesthesia / Craig A.E. Mosley.

Anesthesia at high altitude / Khursheed Mama.

Anesthesia and sedation of miniature horses / Nora S. Matthews, Carin Ponder.

Section II. Medico-legal.

Reading and interpreting scientific literature / Philip H. Kass.

Equine insurance / Ronald K. Kirk, T. Douglas Byars.

Protecting yourself with medical records / Margaret L. Neterer, Patricia O'Handley.

Unwanted horse: an overview of the issue / Tom R. Lenz.

Field necropsy of the horse / Kart J. Williams.

Section III. Nutrtion.

Nutrtional management of the starved horse / Iveta Becvarova, Craig D. Thatcher.

Dietary management of the obese horse / Raymond J. Geor, Patricia Harris.

Updates to the nutrient requirements of the horse: NRC 2007 guidelines / Laurie M. Lawrence.

Antioxidants and horse health / Pierre Lekeux, Nathalie Kirschvink.

Nutritional factors in developmental orthopedic diseases / Brian D. Nielsen.

Pros and cons of probiotics / Veronique Julliand, Annette Zeyner.

Herbs and nutriceuticals / Carey A. Williams.

Use of nutriceuticals for equine joint disease / C. Wayne McIlwraith.

Nutrition for the critically ill horse / Susan J. Holcombe, Elizabeth Carr.

Section IV. Headshaking syndrome / Katy D. Taylor, Daniel S. Mills.

Management of sterotypic behanvior (stable vices) / Daniel S. Mills.

Aggression in horses / Sharon Lynn Crowell-Davis.

Foal rejection / Katherine A. Houpt.

Transportation of horses / Ted H. Friend.

Cont.

Section V. Infectious disease.

Strangles: immunology and management / John F. Timoney.

Epidemiology of Rhodococcus equi pneumonia in foals / Noah D. Cohen.

Control of Salmonella and nosocomial infections / Roberta M. Dwyer.

Pneumonia caused by Rhodococcus equi infection in foals / Nathan M. Slovis.

Lyme disease / Thomas J. Divers, Yung-Fu Chang.

Leptospirosis / Thomas J. Divers, Yung-Fu Chang.

Systemic illness caused by Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis / Suzanne M. Pratt.

Equine viral arteritis / Peter J. Timoney.

Clostridial diseases / J. Scott Weese.

Lawsonia intracellularis enteropathy in foals / Ramino E. Toribio.

Equine herpesvirus myeloencephalopathy / Latz S. Goehring, D. Paul Lunn.

Section VI. Cariovascular system.

Cardiovascular pharmacology / Colin C. Schwarzwald.

Management of atrial fibrillation / Gunther Van Loon.

Effects of training on echocardiographic measurements / Rikke Buhl, Annette K. Ersboll.

Congestive heart failure / Sarah Y. Gardner.

Pericarditis / Sophy A. Jesty.

Infective endocarditis / Sophy A. Jesty.

Pulmonary hypertension / JoAnn Slack.

Biochemical tests for cardiac injury / Simon F. Peek.

Blood-donor horses and whole-blood transfusion in private practice / J. Barry David.

Coagulopathies / Karsten Feige.

Section VII. Respiratory system.

Dental radiography in relation to sinus disease / David O. Klugh.

Sinoscopy and sinus surgery in the standing horse / James Schumacher, Justin Perkins.

Ultrasonographic examination examination of the upper airway / Heather J. Chalmers, Norm G. Ducharme.

Disorders of the gutteral pouch / R. Scott Pleasant, Douglass B. Berry II.

Efficacy of surgery for laryngeal hemiplegia / Jennifer A. Brown.

Surgical advancement of the larynx for treatment of dorsal displacement of the soft palate / Norm G. Ducharme.

Disorders of the trachea / Niamh M. Collins, Padriac M. Dixon.

Cough / Virginia Beuchner-Maxwell.

Viral respiratory diseases / Undine Christmann, Virginia Beuchner-Maxwell.

Antimicrobial therapy of the respiratory system / Harold C. McKenzie III.

Multimodal management of the horse with airway disease / Laurent Couetil.

Managing inflammatory airway disease in pleasure horses / Melissa R. Mazan.

Inflammatory airway disease in racehorses / Brett A. Berthold, N. Edward Robinso.

Pleuropneumonia / Marybeth Miskovic, Laurent Couetil.

Granulomatous lung disease / T. Douglas Byars.

Equine multinodular pulmonary fibrosis / Kurt J. Williams, Pamela A. Wilkins.

Silicosis and osteoporosis syndrome / Matthew G. Durham.

Respiratory fungal infections / Allison J. Stewart.

Pneumothorax / Joel Lugo.

Thoracoscopically guided pulmonary biopsy / Joel Lugo.

Management of pulmonary edema / Kate Borer.

Exercise-induced pulmonary hemorrhage / Montague N. Saulez.

Section VIII.

Iatrogenic damage caused by modern dentistry procedures / Thomas J. Johnson .

Periodontal disease / David O. Klugh.

Dental nerve blocks / Colleen Porter.

Dental extraction / W. Henry Tremaine.

Management of tongue injuries / Mathew P. Gerard.

Oral cavity masses / Mathew P. Gerard.

Esophageal obstruction / Yvonne A. Elce.

Dysphagia of neurogenic origin / Monica Aleman.

Esophageal surgery / David E. Freeman.

Grass sickness / Bruce C. McGorum, R. Scott Pirie.

Gastric ulcer syndrome / Jenifer A. Nadeau, Frank M. Andrews.

Imaging, endoscopy, and other diagnostic procedures for the acute abdomen / Alison J. Morton.

Stabilizing the surgical colic patient for referral / Lance H. Bassage II.

Use of laparoscopy in abdominal disease / Lori A. Bidwell.

Gastrointestinal prokinetic drugs / Vanessa L. Cook.

Medical management of horses after colic surgery / Louise L. Southwood.

Ileal impaction / Kelly Fleming, P.O. Eric Mueller.

Cecal impaction / Anthony T. Blikslager.

Intraluminal obstruction of the large colon / Marco A.F. Lopes.

Extraluminal obstruction of the large colon / Marco A.F. Lopes.

Acute equine colitis / Rebecca S. McConnico.

Chronic colic: diagnosis and treatment / Debra C. Archer.

Right dorsal ulcerative colitis / Samuel L. Jones.

Antimicrobial-associated diarrhea / Samuel L. Jones.

Mesh hernioplasty / John F. Peroni.

Infiltrative bowel diseases / John Schumacher.

Integrated control of equine cyathostomes / Anne M. Zajac.

Neoplastic disease of the gastrointestinal tract / Yvonne A. Elce.

Management of rectal tears / Ceri Sherlock, John F. Peroni.

Icterus / Simon F. Peek.

Section IX. Musculoskeletal system.

Heritable muscle diseases / Stephanie J. Valberg.

Evaluation of back pain by clinical examination / Rob Van Wessum.

Assessing saddle fit in perfomance horses / Hilary M. Clayton.

Vertebral facet joint syndrome / Rob Van Weesum.

Sacroiliac disease / Rob Van Weesum.

Pelvic fractures / Keith Brown.

Musculoskeletal injuries in the western performance horse / Robin M. Dabareiner.

Diagnostic imaging and surgical management of conditions involving the stifle joint / Lisa A. Fortier.

Ultrasound of the shoulder / Mary Beth Whitcomb.

Hypochoeris radicata-associated stringhalt / Sarah Y. Gardner.

Osteoarthritis / Earl M. Gaughan.

Osteochondrosis / Pieter A.J. Brama.

Management of tendon injuries / Extracorporeal shock-wave therapy and radial pressure-wave therapy / Scott McClure.

Regional limb perfusion with antimicrobials / Joel Lugo.

White line disease / R. Scott Pleasant, Stephen E. O'Grady.

Management of wounds in the foot / Brian W. Fitzgerald, Clifford M. Honnas.

Pathogenesis of laminitis / James K. Belknap.

Pharmacologic management of laminitis / John F. Peroni.

Prevention of pasture-associated laminitis / R. Scott Pleasant, Craig Thatcher.

Chronic laminitis / Andrew H. Parks, Stephen E. O'Grady.

Ultrasound of the distal portion of the limb / Rob Van Wessum.

Diagnostic value of magnetic resonance imaging in horses with foot pain / John G. Peloso, Billie Lynn Hilt.

Collateral desmitis of the coffin joint / Michael C. Schramme, Mark J. Martinelli.

Deep digital flexor tendon injuries in the foot / Michael C. Schramme.

Ossification of the cartilages of the foot (Sidebone) / Sue J. Dyson.

Rahabilitation therapy / Mimi Porter.

Section X. Nervous system.

Making a neuroanatomic diagnosis / John H. Rossmeisl.

Diagnostic imaging in neurologic disease / John S. Mattoon.

Ataxia / Allison J. Stewart.

Equine motor neuron disease / Thomas J. Divers, Hussni O. Mohammed.

Alphaviral encephalomyelitis (EEE, WEE, and VEE) / Gabriela Suarez-Mier, Robert J. MacKay.

West nile encephalitis / Robert J. MacKay.

Equine protozoal myeloencephalitis / Debra C. Sellon.

Atypical myopathy / Vincent Gerber, Dominique-Marie Votion.

Section XI. Equine recurrent uveitis / Brian C. Gilger.

Ocular squamous cell carcinoma / Elizabeth A. Giuliano.

Eosinophilic keratoconjunctivitis / Jamie Schorling.

Medical and surgical therapies for ulcerative keratitis / Mary E. Utter, Dennis E. Brooks.

Complications of chronic ocular disease / Kathryn L. Wotman, Mary E. Utter.

Enucleation / Brian C. Gilger.

Intraocular surgery / Wendy M. Townsend.

Acute care of soft tissue injuries involving the eyelids, ears, and face / Mathew P. Gerard.

Electrodiagnostic testing for retinal disease / Andras M. Komaromy.

Section. XII. Integument.

Topical treatments for skin disease / Paul B. Bloom.

Insect hypersensitivities / Annett Petersen.

Non-neoplastic nodular and proliferative lesions / Beth A. Valentine, Jon D. Plant.

Fungal skin diseases / Rosanna Marsella.

Skin tumors / Virginia Buechner-Maxwell.

New developments in diagnosis and treatment of equine sarcoid / Elizabeth A. Carr.

Chronic progressive lymphedema in draft horses / Hilde DeCock, Gregory L. Ferraro.

Hereditary equine regional dermal asthenia / Danika L. Bannasch, Stephen D. White.

Cutaneous manifestations of systemic disease / Harold C. Schott.

Wound care and management / Linda A. Dahlgren.

Managements of wounds in high-motion areas / Dean Hendrickson, Joanna Virgin.

Skin grafting / Linda A. Dahlgren.

Section XII. Endocrine system.

Insulin resistance and equine metabolic syndrome / Nicholas Frank.

Pituitary pars intermedia dysfunction / Janice Sojka.

Thyroid disease / Babetta A. Breuhaus.

Section XIV.

Urogenital system.

Management of bladder uroliths / Claude A. Ragle.

Hernaturia / Jan E. Hawkins.

Clinical pathology of renal disease / Frederic S. Almy, Bruce E. LeRoy, Michelle H. Barton.

Diseases of the accessory sex glands of the stallion / John V. Steiner.

Inguinal hernia / Warren Beard.

Diseases of the external genitalia of stallions / John P. Hurgen.

Conditions of the external genitalia of mares / Tracey S. Chenier.

Diseases of the uterus / Carlos R.F. Pinto.

Prevention of estrous behavior in performance mares / Tracey S. Chenier.

Ovariectomy techniques / Thomas B. Yarbrough.

Section XV. Reproduction.

Complications in the peripartum mare / Pamela A. Wilkins.

Postpartum complications i the mare / Grant S. Frazier.

Newer techniques for artificial insemination / Juan C. Samper.

Semen collection and shipping / Juan C. Samper.

Embryo transfer in private practice / Juan Jose Vazquez.

Ovarian diseases / Patric M. McCue.

Infertility in the aged mare / Michelle M. LeBlanc.

Pregnancy diagnosis / Karen E. Wolfsdorf.

Early embryonic loss / Dirk K. Vanderwall.

Placentitis / Fairfield T. Bain, Walter W. Zent.

Causes of abortion / Neil M. Williams.

Diagnostic approach to abortion / Neil M. Williams.

Managing the high-risk pregnancy / Karen E. Wolfsdorf.

Section XVI. Foal.

Rescuing foals during dystocia / Jonathan E. Palmer.

Placental evaluation for assessment of foal problems and maternal reproductive health / Peter R. Morresey, Kristina G. Lu.

Meconium impaction / Susan J. Holcombe, Kristin P. Chaney.

Assays for evaluation of transfer of passive immunity / Johanna L. Watson.

Systemic inflammatory response syndrome / Elizabeth A. Carr.

Management of the sick neonatal foal in the field / Fairfield T. Bain.

Inflammatory bowel diseases in foals / K. Gary Magdesian.

Examination of the foal with colic / Susan J. Holcombe, Kristin P. Chaney.

Urogenital disease in foals / Sharon Witonsky.

Angular limb deformitiies / Alison B. Chesen, Clifford M. Honnas .

Juvenile idiopathic epilepsy in arabian foals of egyptian lineage / Monica Aleman.

Section XVII. Micellaneous.

Geriatric horse / Mary Rose Paradis.

Diagnostic approach to chronic weight loss / Laureline Lecoq, Jean-Pierre Lavoie.

Integrative medicine: applications of acupuncture / Mark V. Chrisman, Rachel H.H. Tann.

Stem cell therapy / Linda A. Dahlgren.

Purchasing laser equipment / Thomas B. Yarbrough.

Hyperbaric oxygen therapy / Nathan M. Slovis.

Maintenance of horses in slings / Jeremy D. Hubert, Rebecca S. McConnico.

Nursing care of the recumbent horse / Jaime L. Miller.

Exhausted horse / Jami Whiting.

Rattlesnake envenomization / C. Langdon Fielding.

Mycotoxins / Robert H. Poppenga.

Malignant hyperthermia / Monica Aleman.

Appendices. 1. Table of common drugs, approximate doses / N. Edward Robinson.

2. Normal clinical pathology data / Bruce W. Parry.

Notes:

Rev. ed. of: Current therapy in equine medicine 5. c2003.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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