Veterinary Anesthesia and Analgesia

Veterinary Anesthesia and Analgesia: the Fifth Edition ofLumb and Jones is a reorganized and updated edition of thegold–standard reference for anesthesia and pain management inveterinary patients.  Encompassing both basic science andclinically relevant information, this edition features a neworganization to facilitate easy access to information for sedating,anesthetizing and alleviating pain in patients with various diseaseconditions.  Now in full color, the Fifth Edition maintainsthis classic book s reputation as a multi–author,multi–disciplinary, comprehensive reference text while updating theclinical application of this increasingly important subject inveterinary medicine. 

Fully up–to–date with the latest advances in veterinaryanesthesia, the Fifth Edition adds new chapters on anesthetic andanalgesic considerations for patients undergoing renal transplanttherapy, cardiac pacemaker implantation, and cardiopulmonarybypass.  The pharmacology sections have been updated andexpanded, and a chapter on euthanasia has been reinstated. Veterinary Anesthesia and Analgesia continues to be anessential resource for veterinary practitioners, specialists, andresearchers working with domestic, wild, zoo, and laboratory animalspecies. 

Key features 

Provides a thoroughly updated edition of this comprehensivereference on veterinary anesthesia and analgesia, combiningstate–of–the–art scientific knowledge and clinically relevantinformation Covers immobilization, sedation, anesthesia, and analgesia ofcompanion, wild, zoo, and laboratory animals Takes a body systems approach for easier reference toinformation about anesthetizing patients with existingconditions Adds 10 completely new chapters with in–depth discussions ofperioperative heat balance, coagulation disorders, pacemakerimplantation, cardiac output measurement, cardiopulmonary bypass,shelter anesthesia and pain management, anesthetic risk assessment,principles of anesthetic pharmacology, and more Now printed in color, with more than 400 images Includes contributions from 82 international contributors withexpertise in a wide range of specialty areas, includinganesthesiology, clinical pharmacology, surgery, medicine, criticalcare, cardiology, urology, laboratory animal medicine, and animalwelfare

Kurt A. Grimm, DVM, MS, PhD, DACVAA, DACVCP, is theFounder of Veterinary Specialist Services, Conifer, Colorado,USA.

Leigh A. Lamont, DVM, MS, DACVAA, is an AssociateProfessor of Anesthesiology at the Atlantic Veterinary College,University of Prince Edward Island, Canada.

William J. Tranquilli, DVM, MS, DACVAA, is a ProfessorEmeritus at the University of Illinois College of VeterinaryMedicine and the President of Veterinary Outdoor Recreation andContinuing Education (VORCE) Inc., USA.

Stephen A. Greene, DVM, MS, DACVAA, is Professor inAnesthesiology at Washington State University, Pullman, Washington,USA.

Sheilah A. Robertson,  BVMS (Hons), PhD, DACVAA,DECVAA, DACAW, DECAWBM  (WSEL), Specialist in Welfare Science,Ethics and Law, MRCVS, is Associate Professor in Anesthesia atMichigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA.