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The busy vet's guide to equine emergencies : treating horses, donkeys and mules / Graham Duncanson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Duncanson, Graham R., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Horses--Diseases--Treatment--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Horses.
- Veterinary emergencies--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Veterinary emergencies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Place of Publication:
- Great Easton : 5m Books, 2026.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Abbreviations
- Part One
- General Advice
- 1 Vital signs and normal values
- Normal temperature, pulse and respiration (TPR)
- Collecting blood samples
- Normal haematological values
- Leucocyte parameters
- Biochemical parameters
- Other blood tests
- Urine tests
- Faeces tests
- 2 Simple diagnostic tests
- Alpha-2 adrenoreceptor agonist test for Horner's syndrome
- Atropine test
- Blondheim test for myoglobin in urine
- Coggins test
- Cryptorchid or rig test
- Passing a nasogastric tube
- Peritoneal tap
- Phenylephrine equine dysautonomia (grass sickness) test
- Serum Amyloid A (SAA)
- Synovial and tendon sheath fluid
- Thoracic ultrasonography
- Zinc sulphate turbidity test
- 3 Behaviour and restraint
- Physiology
- Effect of husbandry on behaviour
- Age of the horse and its ability to learn
- Stereotypies and stable vices
- Classical conditioning
- Generalisation
- Trial and error learning
- Habituation
- Shaping
- Punishment and reward
- Fundamentals of this type of training
- Fundamental rules in handling
- Loading aids
- The barging horse
- Methods of restraint
- Further reading
- 4 Veterinary equipment
- Disposables
- Foot and limb equipment bag
- Forms and recording equipment satchel
- Hygiene
- Horse handling bag
- Small diagnostic bag
- Oral fluids bag
- Plastering equipment bag
- Eye equipment bag
- Sedation bag
- Stitch up bag
- Anaesthetic bag
- Foaling bag
- Foal treating bag
- Fluids
- Euthanasia bag
- Specialised examination and imaging equipment
- Other equipment
- 5 Veterinary medicines
- Medicines to be carried by an ambulatory veterinary surgeon for all equine emergencies
- 6 Sedation, analgesia and field anaesthesia
- General
- Routine sedation
- Routine field anaesthesia
- Glyceryl guaiacolate (GG)
- Routine analgesia
- Sedating the fractious or needle-shy horse
- Part Two
- Specific Conditions
- 7 Colic case
- Signalment
- General inspection of the animal and its environment
- Detailed examination of the animal
- Diagnostic procedures
- Differential diagnosis in adult horses
- Treatment for sand colics
- Strange causes of horses exhibiting colic signs
- How to continue with case management
- In summary
- 8 Foaling case
- General advice
- The call out
- Reliability of clients
- Clinical foaling cases
- Pre-foaling check
- Uterine torsion
- Correction of a uterine torsion from a low flank incision
- Foaling cases with the foal's head back
- Foaling cases with the foal in the dog-sitting position
- Other foaling cases
- Prolapses at parturition
- The use of an epidural anaesthetic
- Rupture of the uterine artery
- Retention of foetal membranes
- 9 Foal problems
- Examination of the foal
- What antibiotics to use in foals
- When to refer
- Transportation of the sick foal
- Bacterial infection
- Combined immunodeficiency (CID)
- Diarrhoea
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 07, 2026).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Duncanson, Graham The Busy Vet's Guide to Equine Emergencies
- ISBN:
- 9781789183917
- 1789183901
- 9781789183900
- 178918391X
- Publisher Number:
- 90104274877
- CIPO000330238
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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