The Equine Hospital Manual

• Basic skills including physical examination, blood collection, and bandaging
• Advanced skills including mechanical ventilation, lung biopsy and cardiac output measurement
• Designing and setting up an equine hospital
• Biosecurity
• Therapeutic drugs used in horses and their doses
• Nutrition for hospital patients, including TPN and PPN
• Fluid therapy – choices, amounts and pitfalls
• Anaesthesia – equipment, techniques and post-operative care including analgesia
• Covers the range of procedures used on hospitalized adult horses and foals, from the simple to the advanced
• Written by a team of over 30 international experts working at the cutting edge of equine medicine and surgery
• The emphasis is on practical, easy-to-access information
• Provides information on therapeutic drugs used in horses and their doses
• Liberally illustrated and fully referenced

Table of Contents:

1. Procedures In the Adult Horse.

2. Procedures in the Neonatal Foal.

3. Hospital Design and Organisation.

4. Anaesthesia.

5. Nutritional Management of the Hospitalised Horse.

6. Common Treatments.

7. Common Problems Encountered in the Hospitalised Horse.

8. Monitoring and Treating the Coagulation System.

9. Monitoring and Treating the Cardiovascular System.

10. Monitoring and Treating the Respiratory System.

11. Monitoring and Treating the Gastrointestinal System.

12. Monitoring and Treating the Liver.

13. Monitoring and Treating the Urogenital System.

14. Monitoring and Treating the Neurological System.

15. Monitoring and Treating Common Musculoskeletal Problems in Hospitalised Horses.

16. Management of Horses with Problems of the Integument.

17. Monitoring and Treatment of Eyes.

18. Physiotherapy.

19. Appendices.