Veterinary treatment for working equines / Dr Graham R. Duncanson, BVSc, MSc (VetGP), DProf, MRCVS.
Material type: TextPublisher: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2010Copyright date: ©2010Description: 1 online resource (xix, 275 pages) : illustrationsContent type:- text
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- Horses -- Diseases -- Treatment
- Horses -- Health
- Veterinary medicine
- Host Resistance and Immunity
- Draught Animals
- Animal Reproduction and Embryology, (New March 2000)
- Animal Behaviour
- Animal Physiology and Biochemistry (Excluding Nutrition)
- Animal Welfare
- Prion, Viral, Bacterial and Fungal Pathogens of Animals, (New March 2000)
- Protozoan, Helminth, Mollusc and Arthropod Parasites of Animals, (New March 2000)
- Non-communicable Diseases and Injuries of Animals
- Veterinary Pharmacology and Anaesthesiology, (New March 2000)
- Animal Surgery and Non-drug Therapy, (New March 2000)
- Diagnosis of Animal Diseases, (New March 2000)
- Donkeys
- Horses
- Allergies
- Anaesthesia
- Anaesthetics
- Animal behaviour
- Animal nutrition
- Animal physiology
- Animal welfare
- Bacterial diseases
- Behaviour
- Blood analysis
- Blood chemistry
- Blood sampling
- Body temperature
- Bone fractures
- Circulatory disorders
- Conditioning
- Dentition
- Diagnosis
- Diagnostic techniques
- Digestive system diseases
- Disease control
- Disease prevention
- Dosage
- Dosage effects
- Euthanasia
- Eye diseases
- Faecal examination
- Female genital diseases
- Foot diseases
- Guidelines
- Haematology
- Harness
- Healing
- Heart diseases
- Hooves
- Horse feeding
- Lameness
- Laminitis
- Learning
- Locomotion
- Male genital diseases
- Mastication
- Movement disorders
- Neoplasms
- Nervous system diseases
- Neuroleptics
- Normal values
- Nutrient requirements
- Orthopaedics
- Parasites
- Parasitoses
- Periodontal diseases
- Poisoning
- Pregnancy
- Pulse rate
- Reproductive disorders
- Respiration rate
- Respiratory diseases
- Restraint of animals
- Skin diseases
- Snake bites
- Tooth diseases
- Toxic substances
- Toxicity
- Toxicology
- Training of animals
- Trauma
- Urinary tract diseases
- Urine analysis
- Urogenital system
- Vaccination
- Vaccines
- Veterinary equipment
- Veterinary medicine
- Veterinary products
- Viral diseases
- Working animals
- Wounds
- HH600
- LL060
- LL250
- LL300
- LL600
- LL810
- LL821
- LL822
- LL860
- LL882
- LL884
- LL886
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This book is comprised of 20 chapters covering several aspects of equine medicine, with focus on horses used as working animals. It serves as a quick guide to help equine practitioners in the field worldwide, particularly those who have no access to sophisticated equipment. The topics discussed are vital signs and normal values, simple diagnostic tests, behaviour and restraint, veterinary equipment, veterinary medicines, vaccines, sedation, field anaesthesia and euthanasia, nutrition, dentistry, hoof conditions and problems within the hoof capsule, orthopaedics, wounds, respiratory, cardiac and circulatory conditions, gastroenteric conditions, neurological and locomotory conditions, eye conditions, urogenital conditions, poisons, skin conditions, harness and tack.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Vital signs and normal values -- Simple diagnostic tests -- Behaviour and restraint -- Veterinary equipment -- Veterinary medicines -- Vaccines -- Sedation, field anaesthesia and euthanasia -- Nutrition -- Dentistry -- Hoof conditions and problems within the hoof capsule -- Orthopaedics -- Wounds -- Respiratory, cardiac and circulatory conditions -- Gastroenteric conditions -- Neurological and locomotory conditions -- Eye conditions -- Urinogenital conditions -- Poisons -- Skin conditions -- Harness and tack.
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