Nonrespiratory Look-Alikes
Chapter 34 Nonrespiratory Look-Alikes Kelly Hall, DVM, Justine A. Lee, DVM, DACVECC KEY POINTS • Respiratory distress, dyspnea, or tachypnea may occur as a result of disease processes not directly…
Transfusion Medicine
Chapter 66 Transfusion Medicine Urs Giger, PD, Dr.Med.Vet., MS, FVH, DACVIM, DECVIM, DECVCP KEY POINTS • Transfusion therapy refers to the safe and effective replacement of blood or one of…
Central Venous Catheterization
Chapter 63 Central Venous Catheterization Harold Davis, BA, RVT, VTS(Emergency/Critical Care and Anesthesia) KEY POINTS • Indications for central venous catheter placement include hemodynamic monitoring, drug administration, and serial blood…
Anticholinergic Poisonings
Chapter 90 Anticholinergic Poisonings Daniel J. Fletcher, DVM, PhD, DACVECC, Lisa A. Murphy, VMD, DABT KEY POINTS • The main symptoms of anticholinergic toxicity are due to blockade of peripheral…
Tachypnea and Hypoxemia
Chapter 9 Tachypnea and Hypoxemia Timothy B. Hackett, DVM, MS, DACVECC KEY POINTS • Tachypnea may occur with or without hypoxemia in critically ill animals. • The diagnostic and therapeutic…
Left Ventricular Failure
Chapter 36 Left Ventricular Failure Dennis E. Burkett, VMD, PhD, DACVECC KEY POINTS • Clinical signs of congestive left heart failure are most commonly tachypnea, dyspnea, and coughing secondary to…
Peripheral Venous Catheterization
Chapter 61 Peripheral Venous Catheterization Harold Davis, BA, RVT, VTS (Emergency/Critical Care and Anesthesia) KEY POINTS • There are four primary catheter types: winged, over-the-needle, through-the-needle, and multilumen. • Catheter…
Illicit Drugs
Chapter 81 Illicit Drugs Andrew J. Brown, MA, VetMB, MRCVS, DACVEC, Deborah C. Mandell, VMD, DACVECC KEY POINTS • Illicit drug intoxication is not uncommon in dogs but is rarely…
Salicylates
Chapter 80 Salicylates Amy J. Alwood, DVM, DACVECC KEY POINTS • Salicylate toxicity represents an infrequent yet serious and complex nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drug toxicity. • Toxicity may result with acute…
Temporary Transvenous Pacing
Chapter 51 Temporary Transvenous Pacing Teresa DeFrancesco, DVM, DACVIM (Cardiology), DACVECC KEY POINTS • Temporary transvenous pacing refers to a minimally invasive modality in which a pacing lead is inserted,…
