Emergency Care for Birds: A Guide for Veterinary Professionals 1st Edition

Your Concise Guide to Avian First Aid and Emergency Care

This concise, practical guide will help veterinary professionals to provide first aid and emergency care for birds. Authored by an avian veterinarian, this book is packed with photographs and anatomy drawings, and includes instructions for stabilizing sick avian patients and managing specific emergency situations at the veterinary clinic.

Key Features

• First Aid for Birds: Provides first aid and emergency care for birds and helps instruct clients on providing basic first aid when they are unable to get to the clinic.
• Emergency Situations: Includes guidance for those presented with a moribund, critically ill patient, including recognizing and treating hypothermia, hypoxia, hypovolemia, and hypoglycemia.
• Practical Resources: Lists alarming signs of disease and toxic plants, and includes clinical procedures, an emergency drug formulary, and bandaging techniques.
• Client Guidance: Offers guidance to veterinarians giving advice to bird owners for first aid at home.
• Visuals: A full-color book packed with photographs and anatomy drawings.