Animal Restraint for Veterinary Professionals - Softcover

Sheldon DVM MS, C. C.; Topel CVT, James

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0323881432 ISBN 13: 9780323881432

Verlag: Elsevier, 2023

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**Selected for 2026 Doody's Core Titles in Veterinary Nursing & Technology**

Master proven techniques for the handling and restraint of common animals! Providing clear guidelines to each procedure, Animal Restraint for Veterinary Professionals, 3rd Edition includes photos showing the exact steps needed to achieve safe restraint of animals seen in the veterinary clinic and visited on farm calls. Separate chapters are devoted to each domestic animal species, including cats, dogs, cattle, horses, sheep, goats, pigs, rabbits, rodents, ferrets, and birds. This edition adds descriptions of new restraint techniques for cats, dogs, and other species. Written by expert veterinary technician instructors C.C. Sheldon, and James A. Topel, this practical guide also includes a chapter on knot tying!

• Step-by-step guidelines make it easy to understand safe, commonly used restraint procedures, and include alternative restraint techniques for several different species
• More than 500 full-color images and a clear, non-technical writing style depict and simplify animal restraint concepts
• Comprehensive coverage includes normal and abnormal animal behavior characteristics, precautions, special handling, restraint devices, and descriptions of special restraint techniques for medical procedures such as venipuncture
• Restraint Principles chapter summarizes the considerations for proper restraint, animal safety, circumstances for restraint, the effect of restraint on animals, and complications
• Knot Tying chapter presents basic types of knots that may be used to safely restrain larger animals

• NEW! Additional restraint techniques are included for several species
• NEW! Restraint of Cats chapter is updated to include guidelines and photos for the removal of cats from a carrier, examination in a carrier, and examination in a towel on the handler's lap
• NEW! Restraint of Dogs chapter is updated to include canine head control using a towel, along with safe techniques for administering intramuscular injections to aggressive dogs including the use of a door as a squeeze area and hip catch
• NEW! Learning objectives, chapter outlines, and key terms are added to the beginning of each chapter

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Dr Clarissa (CC ) Sheldon trained Veterinary technicians at Madison Area Technical College for 27 Years. Believing that medicine is a service to life she led students into the field of service medicine by hosting and recruiting students for monthly spay and neuter clinics for Dane county friends of feral, providing volunteers for local humane societies, leading weeklong service trips to Best friend Animal sanctuary, Heifer International ranch in Arkansas, The everglades outpost, spirit horse program in South Dakota and numerous sled dog races across the Midwest for over 20 years. Her joy is helping veterinary technicians use their skills to serve animals and the people who love them.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Elsevier
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2023
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0323881432
• ISBN 13: 9780323881432
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 3
• Anzahl der Seiten: 256
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
• Verantwortliche Person: Barbara Criscuolo; b.criscuolo@lswr.it; ; Via Spadolini, 7; Milano; 20141; Italien