Autorentext

Dr Kit Sturgess has been in clinical practice for nearly 40 years in primary care, university and private referral clinics He was awarded his PhD looking at the mucosal immune response to feline immunodeficiency virus (FIV). Kit is a Specialist in Small Animal Medicine and an Advanced Practitioner in Veterinary Cardiology. He was awarded his Fellowship of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons for Meritorious Contributions to Clinical Practice and the BSAVA Woodrow Award for contributions to small animal practice in 2022. Besides clinical work Kit spends his time writing and lecturing and has had a wide variety of voluntary roles including Chair of Trustees of Cats Protection and the Wildheart Trust, Editor in Chief of Veterinary Evidence, Chair of BSAVA Education Committee and Council member and Treasurer of the RCVS. He maintains a keen interest in many areas of internal medicine, particularly endocrine, cardiorespiratory and gastrointestinal disease and has authored numerous articles, two textbooks as well as examining, presenting lectures and research abstracts at conferences worldwide.

Klappentext

Concise, problem-oriented and accessibly designed, this second edition focuses on the essentials of medicine and surgery of the dog and cat. Packed with bullet points, flowcharts and tables for quick reference, the book helps start the process of case management and resolution.

Inhalt

1. Basic Approaches 2. Clinical Presentations 3. Body Systems and Multisystemic Disease 4. Anaesthesia, Analgesia and Surgery 5. Critical Care 6. Further reading 7. Units of measurement 8. Selected abbreviations