Feline Anesthesia and Pain Management

About this book

Feline Anesthesia and Pain Management offers a definitive and practical guide to feline anesthesia and pain management.
- Offers detailed practical information on anesthesia and pain management tailored to the unique needs of cats
- Includes a team of world-renowned authors who are experts in veterinary anesthesia and analgesia
- Uses a quick reference format that makes the information easy to find and follow
- Presents full colour images to illustrate concepts

Contents

Foreword xvii
Contributors xix
      
1 Handling, Restraint, and Preanesthetic Assessment 1
      Graeme Doodnaught and Paulo Steagall
2 Anatomy, Physiology, and Pharmacology 17
      Bradley Simon and Paulo Steagall
3 Sedation and Premedication 35
      Paulo Steagall
4 Injectable Anesthetics and Induction of Anesthesia 49
      Paulo Steagall
5 Local Anesthetics and Loco-regional Techniques 67
      Francesco Staffieri and Paulo Steagall
6 Inhalation and Balanced Anesthesia 89
      Bruno Pypendop
7 Monitoring 105
      Daniel Pang
8 Fluid Therapy 123
      Peter Pascoe
9 Anesthetic Management of Special Conditions 139
      Paulo Steagall
10 Anesthetic Complications 159
      Polly Taylor and Sheilah Robertson
11 Mechanisms of Pain 183
      Craig B. Johnson
12 Assessment and Recognition of Acute Pain 199
      Sheilah Robertson
13 Treatment of Acute (Adaptive) Pain 221
      Paulo Steagall and Polly Taylor
14 Assessment and Recognition of Chronic (Maladaptive) Pain 241
      Beatriz Monteiro and Duncan Lascelles
15 Treatment of Chronic (Maladaptive) Pain 257
      Beatriz Monteiro and Eric Troncy

Further Reading 278
Index 281

Customer Reviews

Biography

Paulo Steagall, MV, MS, PhD, DACVAA, is an associate professor of veterinary anesthesia and analgesia at the Universite de Montreal in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

Sheilah Robertson, BVMS (Hons), PhD, DACVAA, DECVAA, CVA, DACAW, Dip ECAWBM, is the chief medical officer for Lap of Love Inc, a large network of veterinarians offering home-based hospice and euthanasia.

Polly Taylor, MA, VetMB, PhD, DVA, DipECVAA, MRCA, FRCVS, is a European and Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons specialist in veterinary anesthesia working as an independent consultant in veterinary anesthesia.