Manual of Equine Anesthesia and Analgesia

A fully updated new edition of this practical guide to managing anaesthesia in horses and other equids, providing updated and expanded information in a concise, easy-to-read format.

Manual of Equine Anesthesia and Analgesia provides practitioners and veterinary students with concise, highly practical guidance on anaesthetising horses, donkeys, and mules. Utilising a bulleted quick-reference format, this popular resource covers the basic physiological and pharmacological principles of anaesthesia, patient preparation and monitoring, and the management of sedation and anaesthesia. Chapters written by leading veterinary anaesthesiologists contain numerous clinical images and illustrations, case examples, tables, diagrams, and boxed summaries of important points.

Now in full colour, the second edition features extensively revised and updated information throughout. New sections cover chronic pain, management of horses undergoing MRI, ventilators, nerve blocks for reproductive surgery, muscle relaxants, various new drugs, paravertebral anaesthesia, treatment of pain using acupuncture and physical rehabilitation techniques, and more. Up-to-date appendices contain drug lists and dosages as well as equations related to equine cardiovascular and respiratory systems. This concise, easy-to-follow guide:

• Provides practical, clinically oriented information on anaesthetising equids.
• Uses a bulleted format designed for fast access to key information.
• Offers step-by-step instructions and diagrams of nerve blocks of the limbs, head, and ophthalmic structures.
• Includes new coverage of topics including regulation of extracellular fluid and blood pressure, acid-base disorders, and haemodynamic effects of autonomic drugs.

Manual of Equine Anesthesia and Analgesia, Second Edition remains a must-have resource for all equine practitioners and veterinary students involved with anaesthetising horses.