Animal Hospice and Palliative Medicine for the House Call Veterinarian

Gain the understanding you need to provide compassionate, end-of-life pet care. Animal Hospice and Palliative Medicine for the House Call Veterinarian provides an all-in-one guide to the skills and challenges related to this growing area of veterinary care. From setting up your business and performing your first in-home consultation to managing pain, performing in-home euthanasia, and providing grief support to the family, this book walks you through each step of care. Written by Dr. Lynn Hendrix, a leading expert and researcher in veterinary palliative medicine, this practical resource shows how to improve the quality of care for pets in the final stages of life.

• Comprehensive coverage addresses the essential topics of palliative care, hospice, and euthanasia.
• Key topics range from setting up a mobile business, in-home consultations to pain management, euthanasia, physical support for the pet, and much more.
• Information on the diseases commonly seen at the end of life includes disease progression and trajectories.
• Single-source review covers animal end-of-life care and consulting, specifically through mobile veterinary services.
• 100 full-color clinical photos depict the concepts and procedures of animal palliative care.
• Practical insights are provided in the areas of family grief support, compassion fatigue, managing difficult home visits, and dispelling the myths of animal hospice and euthanasia.
• Author Lynn Hendrix is an expert veterinarian with than a decade of experience in the field of Veterinary Palliative Medicine and is also the owner/founder of Beloved Pet Mobile Vet, a company providing in-home animal hospice and euthanasia.

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Preface * Lynn Hendrix DVM

• 1. Introduction-History of Animal Hospice * Lynn Hendrix DVM
• 2. Changing the Paradigm * Lynn Hendrix DVM
• 3. How to set up your business * Lynn Hendrix DVM and Mina Weakley
• 4. Going into the home-First consultation * Lynn Hendrix DVM
• 5. Disease and Symptom Management * Lynn Hendrix DVM and Mina Alberta Gloria Weakley
• 6. Pain management * Lynn Hendrix DVM and Eve Harrison
• 7. Physical support * Lynn Hendrix DVM and Carolyn Naun
• 8. Interdisciplinary team * Lynn Hendrix DVM
• 9. Grief support * Lynn Hendrix DVM
• 10. Palliated Death * Lynn Hendrix DVM
• 11. Euthanasia * Lynn Hendrix DVM and Anthony J. Smith
• 12. Aftercare * Lynn Hendrix DVM
• 13. Compassion fatigue, Burnout and Impostor Syndrome * Lynn Hendrix DVM
• 14. Personal Safety and Difficult Visits * Lynn Hendrix DVM
• 15. Additional training/Organizations involved in Animal Hospice * Lynn Hendrix DVM
• 16. The Future of Veterinary Palliative Medicine and Animal Hospice. * Lynn Hendrix DVM
• Appendix * Lynn Hendrix DVM *