CHAPTER 9Coagulation Andrew Linklater Lakeshore Veterinary Specialists, Milwaukee, Wisconsin Introduction Coagulation is the ever‐present dynamic process of changing liquid blood into a semisolid mass (clot) within the vasculature. The coagulation…
CHAPTER 10Red blood cells and hemoglobin Andrew Linklater1 and Veronica Higgs2 1 Lakeshore Veterinary Specialists, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 2 Metropolitan Veterinary Specialists and Emergency Services, Louisville, Kentucky Introduction Alterations in the…
CHAPTER 16Nutritional status Caroline Tonozzi VCA Aurora Animal Hospital, Aurora, Illinois Introduction Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are. (Jean Anthelme Brillat‐Savarin, 18th century)…
CHAPTER 19Pain management Armi Pigott Lakeshore Veterinary Specialists, Milwaukee, Wisconsin Introduction Pain has been defined as an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage [1]….
CHAPTER 1An introduction to SIRS and the Rule of 20 Rebecca Kirby (Formerly) Animal Emergency Center, Gainesville, Florida Introduction to the Rule of 20 and inflammatory response syndromes Heat stroke,…
CHAPTER 3Blood pressure Lauren Sullivan Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado Introduction Blood pressure is a measure of the force exerted by blood on the arterial wall. Measurement of arterial…
CHAPTER 4Albumin and colloid osmotic pressure Adesola Odunayo University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee Introduction Albumin has been found to be a nonspecific marker of critical illness [1]. The albumin level…
