Large Animal Medicine for Veterinary Technicians

This comprehensive guide to all aspects of caring for horses, cattle, camelids, small ruminants, and pigs helps veterinary technician students learn everything they need to know about large animal medicine. Presented in full–color, Large Animal Medicine for Veterinary Technicians provides species–specific coverage with a wealth of images, as well as clinical applications. Coverage includes AVMA–required topics such as hospital biosecurity, restraint, physical examinations, nutrition, clinical and diagnostic procedures, reproduction, neonatology, and disease. To reinforce the text, an accompanying website offers review questions and answers, case studies, and an image bank with additional photographs to aid in breed identification. Veterinary technician students, veterinary technician educators, and veterinary technicians in practice who wish to foster and expand their knowledge of large animal medicine will find Large Animal Medicine for Veterinary Technicians an invaluable resource.

Contributors Abbreviations Preface Acknowledgments Chapter 1: Hospital Biosecurity Leslie Hiber, CVT, BS Chapter 2: Restraint Ann Elizabeth Goplen, DVM Sergio Gonzales, BS Sheryl Ferguson, CVT, VTS(LAIM) Darcy DeCrescenza, CVT Laura Lien MS, CVT, VTS(LAIMVT) Chapter 3: History Stacie K Seymour, DVM Chapter 4: Physical exams Scott R. R. Haskell, DVM Carrie J. Finno, DVM, PhD, Diplomate ACVIM Kristen Wegner, DVM, DACVA Jamie DeFazio, AS, CVT, VTS–EVN Chapter 5: Nutrition Kara M. Burns, MS, MEd, LVT, VTS (Nutrition) Chapter 6: Clinical Procedures Annette M McCoy, DVM, MS, DACVS Erica McKenzie BSc, BVMS, PhD. DACVIM, DACVSMR Sue Loly, LVT,VTS(EVN) Chapter 7: Diagnostic Procedures Sue Loly, LVT, VTS (EVN) JoAnn Slack, DVM, MS, DACVIM, LAIM Laura Lien MS, CVT, VTS(LAIMVT) Rolf B. Modesto, VMD Sheryl Ferguson, CVT, VTS (LAIM) Chapter 8: Medical Imaging Myra F. Barrett DVM, MS, DACVR Kurt Selberg MS, DVM, MS Sheryl Ferguson CVT, VTS (LAIM) Joanne Slack DVM, MS, DACVIM Susan Steward, RT (CT) (MR) Chapter 9: Reproduction Harry Momont, DVM PhD Dipl. ACT Celina M. Checura, DVM MS PhD Dipl. ACT Chapter 10: Neonatology Laura Lien MS, CVT, VTS(LAIMVT) Chapter 11 Diseases Fernando J. Marqués, DVM, Diplomate ACVIM (LAIM) William Gilsenan, VMD, Diplomate ACVIM (LAIM) Amy L. Johnson, DVM, Diplomate ACVIM (LAIM & Neurology) Shirley Sandoval, BAS, LVT, VTS (LAIM) Sian Durward–Akhurst, BVMS Stephanie Rutten–Ramos, DVM, PhD Sue Loly, CVT, VTS (EVN) Heather Hopkinson, RVT, VTS (EVN) Appendices Index

Laura Lien, CVT, MS, VTS (LAIM) is a member of the Association of Veterinary Technician Educators and holds a Veterinary Technician Specialty in Large Animal Internal Medicine with the Academy of Internal Medicine for Veterinary Technicians.  She was awarded Veterinary Technician of the Year by the Wisconsin Veterinary Technician Association in 2009. Susan Loly, LVT, VTS (EVN) is Large Animal Hospital Technical Supervisor at the University of Minnesota Equine Clinical Services Center. She holds a Veterinary Technician Specialty in Equine Veterinary Nursing and was voted AAEVT Member of the Year in 2012. Sheryl Ferguson, CVT, VTS (LAIM) is Large Animal Hospital Manager at the University of Minnesota Veterinary Medical Center. She is a member of the Large Animal Internal Medicine Academy for Veterinary Technicians and has plays active member of the AIMVT credentialing committee.