By Gerardo Poli and Taleta Hompas
Everything you love about the MiniVet Guide Companion Animal Medicine: pocket-sized, concise, practical and relevant focusing on common emergency procedures designed to help Veterinarians find the resources that they need in an emergency… Fast!
In MiniVet Guide: Emergency Medicine PDF, Common emergency presentations are listed alphabetically (except CPR which is at the top – because when you need this information, you need it fast!).
Each category contains everything that you need, listed in the same format (where appropriate) so that it is at your fingertips:
- Core concepts
- Flowcharts
- DDx Algorithm
- Drug Index
- Procedures
Whether you’re a student on final year rotations or studying for final year exams, a new graduate in their first year of practice, an experienced emergency veterinarian or a veterinarian working with emergency patients, the MiniVet Guide to Emergency Medicine is here to make our veterinary careers a little easier. It is not just a book – it’s a lifesaver!
Table of Contents
- Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation
- Emergency Drugs
- Constant Rate Infusion: Vasopressors/Inotropes
- Acute Abdominal Pain
- DDx Algorithm: Abdominal pain
- AFAST/TFAST
- ALI/ARDS
- Anaemia and Pale Mucous Membranes
- Flowchart: Non-Regenerative Anaemia
- Flowchart: Pale mucous membranes
- DDx Algorithm: Anaemia
- Anaesthesia and Analgesia
- Sedatives, Premedicants
- Induction and Maintenance
- Opioids
- Constant Rate Infusion: Analgesia/Anesthesia
- Local Anaesthetics
- Non-Steroidal Anti-inflammatories
- Procedures: Arterial Catheter Placement, Central Venous Catheterisation Placement, Intravenous Catheter Placement
- Antimicrobial Selection
- Antibiotics
- Constant Rate Infusion: Antibiotic Medications
- Biochemistry
- Sample Collection and Storage
- Cardiovascular Disease
- Pericardial effusion
- Flowchart: Weakness/Collapse
- DDx Algorithm: Heart murmur, Syncope/Collapse
- Cardiopulmonary Drugs
- Constant Rate Infusion: Cardiac Medications
- Procedure: Pericardial Effusion Drainage
- Coagulopathy
- Acute Coagulopathy of Trauma and Shock (ACOTS)
- Flowchart: Bleeding
- Constipation and Tenesmus
- Sample Collection and Storage
- Diarrhoea: Small intestine, Large intestine
- Flowchart: Diarrhoea (Small/Large Intestine)
- DDx Algorithm: Diarrhoea, Haematemesis, Haematochezia, Malena
- Flowchart: Effusions/Oedema
- Endocrine Disease
- Critical Illness-Related Corticosteroid Insufficiency (CIRCI)
- Fluid Therapy
- Gastric Distension and Volvulus
- DDx Algorithm: Abdominal distension
- Heatstroke
- Jaundice
- Kidney Disease (Acute and Chronic)
- Procedure: Dog Indwelling Catheter Placement
- Mechanical Ventilation
- Neurological Disease
- Neurological Exam, Vestibular Disease
- Flowchart: Seizure disorders, Status Epilepticus, Constipation/Tenesmus
- Cytology
- Flowchart: Diarrhoea
- DDx Algorithm: Haematemesis, Haematochezia, Malena
- Haematology
- DDx Algorithm: Hyperthermia
- Hepatobiliary Disease
- Flowchart: Jaundice, Anuria/Oliguria
- Nutrition
- Pancreatic Disease
- Pyrexia of Unknown Origin
- Flowchart: Pyrexia of unknown origin
- Radiology
- Respiratory Disease
- Tracheal Collapse, Laryngeal Paralysis, Feline Bronchial Disease, Pneumonia, Pleural Effusion
- Flowchart: Respiratory distress
- Procedures: Temporary Tracheostomy Tube Placement, Thoracostomy Tube Placement
- Seizure Disorders
- DDx Algorithm: Seizures, Paresis/Paralysis
- Ophthalmology
- DDx Algorithm: Blindness, Dystocia
- Shock and Anaphylaxis
- Skeletal Disease
- DDx Algorithm: Multiple Joint/Limb Lameness, Single Joint/Limb Lameness
- Toxicology
- Transfusion Therapy
- Urinary Tract Disease
- DDx Algorithm: Dysuria, Haematuria
- Vomiting and Regurgitation
- Flowchart: Regurgitation, Vomiting (Acute and Chronic)
- Procedures: Nasogastric Tube Placement, Oesophagostomy Tube Placement
- Wound Management
MiniVET guide: Companion Animal Medicine
