This comprehensive guide to all aspects of caring for horses, cattle, camelids, small ruminants, and pigs helps veterinary technician students learn everything they need to know about large animal medicine.

Presented in full-color, Large Animal Medicine for Veterinary Technicians provides species-specific coverage with a wealth of images, as well as clinical applications. Coverage includes AVMA-required topics such as hospital biosecurity, restraint, physical examinations, nutrition, clinical and diagnostic procedures, reproduction, neonatology, and disease.

To reinforce the text, an accompanying website offers review questions and answers, case studies, and an image bank with additional photographs to aid in breed identification.

Veterinary technician students, veterinary technician educators, and veterinary technicians in practice who wish to foster and expand their knowledge of large animal medicine will find Large Animal Medicine for Veterinary Technicians an invaluable resource.

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Preface

Acknowledgments

Chapter 1: Hospital Biosecurity

Leslie Hiber, CVT, BS

Chapter 2: Restraint

Ann Elizabeth Goplen, DVM

Sergio Gonzales, BS

Sheryl Ferguson, CVT, VTS(LAIM)

Darcy DeCrescenza, CVT

Laura Lien MS, CVT, VTS(LAIMVT)

Chapter 3: History

Stacie K Seymour, DVM

Chapter 4: Physical exams

Scott R. R. Haskell, DVM

Carrie J. Finno, DVM, PhD, Diplomate ACVIM

Kristen Wegner, DVM, DACVA

Jamie DeFazio, AS, CVT, VTS-EVN

Chapter 5: Nutrition

Kara M. Burns, MS, MEd, LVT, VTS (Nutrition)

Chapter 6: Clinical Procedures

Annette M McCoy, DVM, MS, DACVS

Erica McKenzie BSc, BVMS, PhD. DACVIM, DACVSMR

Sue Loly, LVT,VTS(EVN)

Chapter 7: Diagnostic Procedures

Sue Loly, LVT, VTS (EVN)

JoAnn Slack, DVM, MS, DACVIM, LAIM

Laura Lien MS, CVT, VTS(LAIMVT)

Rolf B. Modesto, VMD

Sheryl Ferguson, CVT, VTS (LAIM)

Chapter 8: Medical Imaging

Myra F. Barrett DVM, MS, DACVR

Kurt Selberg MS, DVM, MS

Sheryl Ferguson CVT, VTS (LAIM)

Joanne Slack DVM, MS, DACVIM

Susan Steward, RT (CT) (MR)

Chapter 9: Reproduction

Harry Momont, DVM PhD Dipl. ACT

Celina M. Checura, DVM MS PhD Dipl. ACT

Chapter 10: Neonatology

Laura Lien MS, CVT, VTS(LAIMVT)

Chapter 11 Diseases

Fernando J. Marqués, DVM, Diplomate ACVIM (LAIM)

William Gilsenan, VMD, Diplomate ACVIM (LAIM)

Amy L. Johnson, DVM, Diplomate ACVIM (LAIM & Neurology)

Shirley Sandoval, BAS, LVT, VTS (LAIM)

Sian Durward-Akhurst, BVMS

Stephanie Rutten-Ramos, DVM, PhD

Sue Loly, CVT, VTS (EVN)

Heather Hopkinson, RVT, VTS (EVN)

Appendices

Index

Laura Lien, CVT, MS, VTS (LAIM)is a member of the Association of Veterinary Technician Educators and holds a Veterinary Technician Specialty in Large Animal Internal Medicine with the Academy of Internal Medicine for Veterinary Technicians. She was awarded Veterinary Technician of the Year by the Wisconsin Veterinary Technician Association in 2009.

Susan Loly, LVT, VTS (EVN)is Large Animal Hospital Technical Supervisor at the University of Minnesota Equine Clinical Services Center. She holds a Veterinary Technician Specialty in Equine Veterinary Nursing and was voted AAEVT Member of the Year in 2012.

Sheryl Ferguson, CVT, VTS (LAIM)is Large Animal Hospital Manager at the University of Minnesota Veterinary Medical Center. She is a member of the Large Animal Internal Medicine Academy for Veterinary Technicians and has plays active member of the AIMVT credentialing committee.