Showing papers in "Clinical Techniques in Small Animal Practice in 2004"

TL;DR: This review provides an overview of both the traditional and current principles of small animal internal fracture fixation.

TL;DR: Femur fractures occur commonly in cats and dogs following substantial trauma and should be anatomically reduced and rigidly stabilized to reduce the chance of progressive osteoarthritis.

TL;DR: Because of a lack in veterinary studies evaluating the nutritional requirements of critically ill small animals, current recommendations for nutritional support of veterinary patients are based largely on sound clinical judgment and the best information available, including data from experimental animal models and human studies.

TL;DR: Issues in donor selection and management, supplies and techniques of blood-component acquisition, and supplies andtechniques ofBlood-component preparation are discussed.

TL;DR: This discussion focuses on how to avoid, recognize, and treat major complications of fracture repair, including osteomyelitis, delayed union, nonunion, malunion, premature physeal closure, and fracture associated sarcoma.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors proposed a model to provide an understanding of the range of stimuli that each dog needs for the maintenance of emotional homeostasis and the interplay between these stimuli and events in the dog's environment.

TL;DR: The availability of blood products is limited in exotic pet medicine; therefore, the use of blood substitutes (Oxyglobin) has the advantage of long storage potential, no need for cross-matching, and no potential for disease transmission.

TL;DR: The feline diseases considered include retroviral infections, feline coronaviruses, ehrlichiosis (Ehrlichia canis-like), anaplasmosis (Anaplasma phagocytophilum), neorickettsiosis (N. risticii var. Risticii), and cytauxzoonosis (CytauxZoon felis).

TL;DR: For many years, Physical Therapy has routinely helped human patients recovering from fractures reach their functional goals by helping them regain movement, flexibility, strength, coordination, and balance.

TL;DR: The goals of this article are to review blood banking and the transfusion principles surrounding care of the critically ill or injured small animal, to highlight the differences in emergency/critical care transfusions compared with standard transfusion medicine, and to discuss traumatic blood loss and sepsis as unique entities in emergency and critical medicine.

TL;DR: Transfusion of blood products is a frequent necessity in small animal practice and has become more sophisticated with increased access to blood components, knowledge of blood types, and cross-matching requirements.

TL;DR: This article will focus on selection and placement of nasoesophageal, nasogastic, esophagostomy, and gastrostomy tubes.

TL;DR: The pathophysiology of acute blood loss, the benefits and risks of transfusions in surgical patients, management of perioperative blood transfusions, and alternative strategies to minimize the need for blood products are discussed.

TL;DR: Fractures of the radius and ulna are commonly encountered in the small animal population and are often repaired with the use of external fixators or a bone plate.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the presenting signs, diagnosis, and differential diagnosis of compulsive disorder, and problems with the diagnosis and heterogeneity of the condition are discussed, likely causes, development, and pathophysiology of the conditions form the basis for the clinical approach to the treatment of the disorder.

TL;DR: In veterinary patients, postgastric feeding is indicated for uncontrollable gastric vomiting, gastroparesis, biliary tract disease, pancreatitis, and for patients at increased risk for aspirating secondary to decreased mentation, prolonged recumbency, or an unprotected airway.

TL;DR: Available routes of nutrient delivery to the gastrointestinal tract are reviewed, indications and contraindications for each are discussed, and a sound knowledge of gastrointestinal function, anticipated duration of enteral support, and co-moribund conditions will help the clinician tailor a plan of nutrients delivery that optimally meets each patient's needs.

TL;DR: Knowing the types of complications that can occur with enteral nutritional support will aid in the process of deciding whether and how a patient should receive assisted feeding, and what parameters to monitor while a patient is receiving nutritional support.

TL;DR: Understanding the drugs available and their interaction with the receptors involved in neuromuscular transmission within the gastrointestinal tract will aid the clinician in selecting the optimal prokinetic therapy.

TL;DR: The benefits of appropriate nutrient intake in critically ill animals, recommended nutrient requirements for dogs and cats receiving enteral feeding, and mechanics of food preparation and delivery for a variety of feeding tubes are focused on.

TL;DR: Appropriate diagnosis and treatments for elimnation in inappropriate locations for cat owners' pets are reviewed.

TL;DR: This chapter provides a review of humeral fracture management and describes the challenges of repairing humeral fractures in small animals.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluated human-directed aggression in cats as a multifactorial problem, which resulted from the combined actions of heredity, environment, learning, human social requirements (or needs), client interactions, lack of understanding of normal feline behavior, unrealistic client expectations, and lack of meeting the cat's basic ethologic needs.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that the boundaries between behavioral conditions and medical differentials are likely to blur more rather than less as we learn more about genomic, cellular, and subcellular effects on common conditions.