Noordsy's food animal surgery /

Noordsy's Food Animal Surgery, Fifth Edition is a fully updated new edition of the classic field manual on surgical techniques in cattle, goats, sheep, and pigs. Designed for easy, fast access in the field, information is presented using a concise outline style with information boxes, tables, d...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ames, N. Kent
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Chichester, West Sussex : Wiley, 2014.
Edition:Fifth edition.
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Online Access: Full text (Wentworth users only)
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Noordsy's Food Animal Surgery; Contents; Preface; About the Companion Website; Chapter 1 General Surgical Consideration; Preoperative Procedures; History; Physical Examination and Clinical Tests; Monitoring and Assessment; Surgical Facilities; Restriction of Food and Water in Elective Surgery; Preoperative Medications; Preparing the Surgical Site; Cleaning; Preparation of the Proposed Surgical Site; Draping; Tail Restraint; Postoperative Care; Nutrition; Suggested Reading; Chapter 2 Surgical Restraint; General Considerations; Techniques That Divert the Animal's Attention; Cattle; Pigs.
  • Methods That Prevent KickingCattle; Calves, Sheep, and Goats; Methods for Raising a Leg in Cattle; Using a Front Leg Hobble; Raising the Front Leg Manually; Raising the Rear Leg Manually; Using the Beam Hook Method with the Rear Leg (Figure 2-7); Methods for Restraining the Tail in Cattle; Using a Tail Rope; Using a Tail-to-Leg Tie; Methods for Casting Cattle; Burley Method (Figure 2-8); Reuff's Double Half-Hitch Method (Figure 2-9); Other Restraints; Sideline Restraint (Figure 2-10); Lateral Recumbency Restraint in a Young Calf; Mechanical Restraint; Chutes for Cattle; Cage or Rotary Tables.
  • Flat TablesSuggested Reading; Chapter 3 Local and Regional Anesthesia; General Considerations for Local and Regional (Nonepidural) Anesthesia; Introduction; Prerequisites for Applying Regional Anesthesia; Abdominal Wall Anesthesia In Cattle (Figure 3-1); Proximal Lumbar Paravertebral Nerve Block; Distal Lumbar Paravertebral Nerve Block (Figures 3-6 and 3-7); Inverted L Paralumbar Anesthesia (Figure 3-8); Anesthesia of the Distal Limb Via Vascular (IV) Infusion in Cattle; Indications; Preinfusion Procedures; Materials; Technique; Characteristics of the Anesthesia.
  • Anesthesia of the Horn (Cornual Nerve Block)Cattle; Goats; Eye and Eyelid Anesthesia in Cattle; General Considerations; Preinfusion Procedures; Peterson Eye Block; Retrobulbar and Auriculopalpebral Nerve Anesthesia; Block of the Auriculopalpebral Nerve (Branch of Cranial Nerve VII); Teat Anesthesia in Cattle; General Considerations; Ring Block of the Teat Base (Figure 3-12); Inverted V Block Over the Surgical Area (Figure 3-13); Teat Cistern Infusion (Figure 3-14); Vascular (Local) Infusion; Sacral and Subsacral Paravertebral Blocks; Sacral Paravertebral Alcohol Block in Ruminants.
  • Subsacral Paravertebral Nerve Block in PigsSuggested Reading; Chapter 4 Epidural Anesthesia; Principles of Epidural Anesthesia; Anatomic Considerations; Action of Epidural Anesthesia; Types of Epidural Anesthesia Classifi ed According to Effect; Indications for Epidural Anesthesia; Contraindications to Epidural Anesthesia; Administering Epidural Anesthesia; Types of Anesthesia According to Site of Injection; Lumbar Segmental Epidural in Cattle; Lumbosacral Epidural; Suggested Reading; Chapter 5 General Anesthesia and Postoperative Analgesia; Introduction and General Considerations.