Chronic Disease Management for Small Animals

Features:

• • The impact that chronic disease has on the quality of life for both the patient and its owner
  • Specific chronic diseases, outlining diagnostics, therapeutics, and quality of life concerns
  • Hospice care and end of life, including client and pet needs, quality of life, cultural sensitivities, dying naturally, euthanasia, and death

Table of Contents:

1. Communication, Caregiving, and Chronic Disease

2. Introduction to Communication and Caregiving

3. Overview of Chronic Disease Impact

4. Impact on Quality of Life

5. Know Yourself: Collaborative Decision Making

6. Verbal Communication

7. Nonverbal Communication

8. Pruritus, Atopic Dermatitis, and Pyoderma

9. Diagnosis and Management of Skin Disease

10. Quality of Life in Dermatologic Conditions

11. Managing Mobility: Orthopedic and Neurologic Impairments

12. Diagnosis of Mobility Disorders

13. Therapeutics for Mobility Disorders

14. Quality of Life in Mobility Disorders

15. End-of-Life Decisions in Mobility Impairment

16. Chronic Diseases of the Eye and Adnexa

17. Adnexal and Corneal Disorders

18. Intraocular Disease and Uveitis

19. Lenticular and Posterior Segment Disease

20. Blindness in Chronic Disease

21. Heart Disease

22. Acute Heart Failure Treatment

23. Chronic Congestive Heart Failure Management

24. Specific Cardiac Conditions

25. Canine Cognitive Dysfunction

26. Diagnosis and Therapy of Cognitive Dysfunction

27. Vestibular Syndromes

28. Diagnosis and Therapy of Vestibular Disorders

29. Seizure Disorders

30. Diagnosis and Therapy of Seizures

31. Feline Hyperthyroidism

32. Diagnosis and Management

33. Renal and Iatrogenic Complications

34. Hypoadrenocorticism in Dogs

35. Diagnosis and Treatment

36. Canine Hypothyroidism

37. Thyroid Testing and Treatment

38. Hyperadrenocorticism in Dogs and Cats

39. Therapy and Quality of Life

40. Diabetes Mellitus

41. Diagnosis, Therapy, and Monitoring

42. Chronic Pancreatitis

43. Diagnosis and Treatment

44. Quality of Life in Pancreatitis

45. Megaesophagus and Esophageal Dysmotility

46. Diagnosis and Management

47. Chronic Gastritis

48. Diagnosis and Therapeutics

49. Ulcerative Colitis

50. Diagnosis and Therapy

51. Megacolon

52. Diagnosis and Therapeutics

53. Inflammatory Bowel Disease

54. Diagnosis and Therapy of IBD

55. Protein-Losing Enteropathy

56. Diagnosis and Therapy in PLE

57. Cholecystitis

58. Diagnosis and Therapeutic Management

59. Biliary Mucocele

60. Pathogenesis, Diagnosis, and Treatment

61. Chronic Hepatitis

62. Diagnosis and Therapeutics

63. Portosystemic Liver Shunts

64. Diagnosis and Treatment

65. Hepatic Lipidosis

66. Diagnosis and Treatment

67. Feline Cholangitis

68. Diagnosis and Treatment

69. Chronic Kidney Disease

70. Diagnosis and Management

71. Chronic Urinary Tract Infection

72. Management and Monitoring

73. Feline Interstitial Cystitis

74. Diagnosis and Treatment

75. Canine Chronic Bronchitis

76. Etiology, Diagnosis, and Therapy

77. Bronchiectasis

78. Classification and Treatment

79. Interstitial Lung Diseases

80. Diagnosis and Treatment

81. Feline Asthma

82. Comorbidities and Therapy

83. Collapsing Trachea

84. Diagnosis and Management

85. Allergic Rhinitis

86. Diagnosis and Therapy

87. Hospice Care and End of Life

88. Client and Pet Needs in Hospice

89. Quality of Life at End of Life

90. Cultural Sensitivities

91. Natural Dying and Euthanasia

92. Aftercare and Death Management

93. Dying Well Summary