Veterinary Anesthesia and Analgesia

Veterinary Anesthesia and Analgesia: the Fifth Edition of Lumb and Jones is a reorganized and updated edition of the gold-standard reference for anesthesia and pain management in veterinary patients. * Provides a thoroughly updated edition of this comprehensive reference on veterinary anesthesia and analgesia, combining state-of-the-art scientific knowledge and clinically relevant information * Covers immobilization, sedation, anesthesia, and analgesia of companion, wild, zoo, and laboratory animals * Takes a body systems approach for easier reference to information about anesthetizing patients with existing conditions * Adds 10 completely new chapters with in-depth discussions of perioperative heat balance, coagulation disorders, pacemaker implantation, 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