Ferrets, Rabbits, and Rodents Clinical Medicine and Surgery

<p>**Selected for Doody's Core Titles® 2024 in Veterinary Medicine**<br> <br> Learn to treat a wide variety of small mammals and pocket pets with <b>Ferrets, Rabbits, and Rodents: Clinical Medicine and Surgery, 4th Edition</b>. Covering the conditions most often seen in veterinary practice, this highly readable and easy-to-navigate text covers preventative medicine along with disease management, ophthalmology, dentistry, and zoonosis. More than 700 full-color photographs and illustrations highlight radiographic interpretation as well as diagnostic, surgical, and therapeutic techniques. This fourth edition also features new coverage of degus (large rodent species); new coverage of prairie dogs; and expanded coverage of surgical procedures, physical therapy rehabilitation and alternative medicine for rabbits, neoplasia in rabbits, and zoonotic disease. With expert contributors from around the globe, <i>Ferrets, Rabbits, and Rodents</i> is the authoritative, single point of reference for small mammal care that is hard to find elsewhere.</p> <ul> <li><b>Logical organization</b> lays out sections by different animals and organizes parts within chapters by body system - making it quick and easy to access important information.</li> <li><b>Drug formulary</b> provides dosage instructions for a wealth of species including ferrets, rabbits, guinea pigs, chinchillas, hamsters, rats/mice, prairie dogs, hedgehogs, and sugar gliders.</li> <li><b>More than 700 photographs and illustrations</b> highlight key concepts such as radiographic interpretation and the main points of diagnostic, surgical, and therapeutic techniques.</li> <li><b>Chapter on ophthalmology</b> provides an area of study that is difficult to find for ferrets, rabbits, rodents, and other small mammals.</li> <li><b>Chapter outlines</b> offer an at-a-glance overview of the chapter contents at the beginning of the chapter.</li> <li><b>Access to <i>Expert Consult</i></b> site provides an excellent comprehensive reference and a fully searchable eBook.</li> </ul> <ul> <li><b>NEW! Coverage of surgical procedures</b> has been further expanded in this edition. Surgical procedures are presented in a separate section and shown step by step through color photographs and radiographs, accompanied by line drawings.</li> <li><b>NEW! Additional information on physical therapy rehabilitation and alternative medicine for rabbits</b> includes chiropractic care and acupuncture.</li> <li><b>NEW! Expanded content on neoplasia in rabbits</b> incorporates lymphoreticular disorders, thymoma, and other neoplastic diseases of rabbits.</li> <li><b>NEW! All new chapter on prairie dogs</b> has been added.</li> <li><b>NEW! All new chapter on degus (large rodent species)</b> has been added.</li> <li><b>UPDATED! Chapter on zoonotic disease has been updated to</b> further cover specific zoonotic diseases in addition to addressing the increased potential for disease transmission from animals to humans.</li> <li><b>NEW! Global author perspective</b> incorporates the expertise of authors practicing outside of North America.</li> <li><b>UPDATED! Photographs</b> show the diseases and disorders that are more commonly seen in practice.</li> </ul>