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Visual and technical atlas describing general concepts and details of the main diseases affecting horses. This atlas is designed as an aid to equine veterinarians who need to explain these concepts to horse owners in simple but precise terms.
This book addresses the main feline infectious diseases that are usually seen in daily veterinary practice and includes all the existing updates regarding the diagnostic approach and management of these conditions. Its main aim is to provide highly practical information in order to offer a new perspective, different from other textbooks, about the current infectious diseases in cats.
Why do people buy things? What tools can we use to convince clients and sell our services? In this work, the authors offer their more than 20 years of experience working in different areas of a veterinary practice. Written with a practical approach, this book reviews the current knowledge in neuromarketing and provides advice for its implementation in the real daily life of veterinary practices.
The specific objective of this practical book is to help the reader, whether a veterinary surgeon or manager of a veterinary clinic, design the best possible health plans for their veterinary centre, whether starting from scratch or seeking to improve upon existing health plans that are not selling successfully.
Visual atlas describing general concepts and details of the main diseases affecting the urinary tract of dogs and cats. This atlas is a tool to facilitate communication between veterinary practitioners and pet owners.
Most chapters in this atlas are either disease or problem based, each providing the most relevant information about clinical signs, diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis. Because dogs or cats with the disease of the urinary tract may have more than one of the problems contained in this book, the veterinarian may utilize several chapters to helpfully explain a pet's condition. the text and images will help the owner gain confidence in the veterinarian's recommendations.
Like the preceding volumes in this series, the goal of this new Pet Owner Educational Atlas – dedicated to neurology in dogs and cats – is to assist veterinary surgeons in providing pet owners with appropriate explanations regarding their pet’s condition or treatment. The information provided will also help practicing veterinary surgeons to consolidate their knowledge in this particular specialty.
Achieving the owner's acceptance and implication, both in the required diagnostic tests and therapeutic compliance is an essential aspect for the optimal resolution of any clinical case. To this end, it is necessary that he or she understands what is happening to the pet and what diagnostic and treatment guidelines are being established by the veterinary surgeon.
This new atlas focuses on how parasitic diseases can be diagnosed, treated, and prevented, with a special emphasis on those aspects on which pet owners can have an influence. It includes a classification of parasitic diseases according to the organ systems they affect, parasites in exotic animals, and a description of the most important zoonoses transmitted by dogs and cats.
This new volume of the collection Pet Owner Educational Atlas aims to help pet owners gain a better understanding of parasites, always through their veterinary surgeon's explanations and recommendations. It continues with the goal established in the first work: helping veterinarians in their communication with the pet owners when it comes to explaining how a parasitic disease is affecting their pets.
Infectious bronchitis is an acute and highly contagious respiratory disease of chickens characterized by respiratory signs comprising gasping, coughing, sneezing, tracheal rales and nasal discharge. In addition, severe respiratory distress may occur in young chickens. Respiratory distress, decrease in egg production, and loss of internal egg quality and eggshell quality have been reported in layers. Some strains of the virus produce severe kidney damage and may be associated with high mortality.
In this comprehensive review of infectious bursal disease, the author uses graphic resources accompanied by short texts to describe the disease in an accessible manner. The information provided in this handbook will allow professionals to deal with this disease more effectively.
Atlas entirely dedicated to infectious bursal disease based on a practical and graphic approach of the topic. This handbook has been carried out by highly experienced authors closely involved with this disease in Africa, where its prevalence and incidence are significant. This updated work has been carefully developed including the most essential contents, so that it depicts a valuable tool to cope and control this virus as far as possible. Includes many helpful tips and visual graphic resources provided by the authors to enrich and turn this atlas into a reference in its field. Furthermore, diagnosis and vaccination have been thoroughly explained, highlighting vaccination programmes and types of vaccines. The atlas format helps to make the contents understandable for readers.
Updated review of Newcastle disease presented in a visual and practical manner. The chapter dedicated to the clinical diagnosis of the disease will surely be of great interest to the reader. The vaccination section provides the main guidelines to prevent vaccine failures and control the immunological status of the operation.
Vaccination is one of the cornerstones of poultry production. In fact, it is one of the aspects that most influence production parameters in the poultry industry. In broilers, the optimum time of vaccination should aim at obtaining the maximum meat yield. In layers and breeders, both time and the route of administration have an influence in the quality of egg shells and the number of eggs per laying, among others.
This atlas describes the avian necropsy technique in a detailed and systematic manner. It also provides information about the pathologies commonly observed in poultry at the slaughterhouse, as well as guidelines on how to collect samples for diagnostic tests. This updated edition includes, in addition to more than 200 images, explanatory videos to obtain the maximum diagnostic yield.
This book serves as a useful tool for learning about the most common diseases of tilapia (both red and Nile) raised in intensive and semi-intensive systems. It covers both macroscopic and microscopic lesions as well as elements of production and parameters of water quality which are critical to determining the health and disease of these fish.
The book deals with the reconstruction of posterior teeth with direct and indirect adhesive techniques and consist of two volumes. This text, the second reconstruction volume, deals with indirect techniques, defining the current indications but also describing the Morphology Driven Preparation Technique (MDPT), an innovative cavity design applicable to all types of conventional adhesively cemented restorations. An essential added value are all the procedures to treat sub-gingival lesions tackled with restorative methods integrated with surgical procedures related to caries, fractures, cervical root resorption.
Photography for me is different than some other facets of dentistry. It has a power that is unspoken and transformative. With just a visual image, you can change the mind-set of a patient and elicit emotion from both the subject and the photographer. It is art. It is dynamic. It is simple. It is complex. It is powerful.
Help your patients to smile with confidence. This non-formulaic focus on Smile Design offers a “how-to” approach to patient communication surrounding the art of smile analysis, the treatment planning process, and case presentation. Read it again and again as you master each step of smile creation at your own pace. This tried and tested method will transition your dental practice from a singletooth method toward full-mouth care.
Finally, a book that breaks down the entire veterinary practice model into its individual components. The retooled and redesigned model will show to the practice owner or manager how shift from activity to productivity, how to harness team's members personal talents, how to motivate clients to come in for service. Enclosed to the book there are supporting materials downloadable and a 6-part audio course: Taking charge of your client experience.
The good news is that it doesn’t have to remain a mystery. The goal of this book is to help dentists who are looking to demystify the dental marketing process, and those in need of more new patients, regardless of whether you are a marketing director for a current practice or a dentist yourself, a solo practitioner, or one in a group practice, or someone who is in-network with dental insurance companies or completely out of network with them.
The problem-oriented approach is recommended by the College of Internal Medicine to address and resolve medical problems. Hence the idea of a book based on algorithms that guide the reader step-by-step with logical, practical, cost-effective options to proceed from a general concern, laboratory abnormality, or imaging finding to a specific diagnosis or treatment. Moreover, comprehensive notes, linked to the algorithms by references, give more details regarding a specific diagnostic investigation, a particular disease or the therapy recommended.
This visual atlas takes a trip through the digestive system, describing general concepts of its anatomy and physiology. It covers the diagnostic and therapeutic approach to common disorders of the gastrointestinal tract, hepatobiliary tract, and pancreas. Enriched with simple, yet comprehensive illustrations, it serves as a tool to facilitate communication between veterinarians and pet owners.
The aim of this guide is to provide both the vet and the student with a quick reference guide to enable them to easily recognise the most common ophthalmological ailments seen in daily practice. The more than 700 images shown in this guide belong to real cases
An up-to-date descriptive atlas on the diagnosis of the main types of ectoparasitosis in dogs and cats. It covers the most relevant aspects of each parasite, using graphical resources to help identify these pathogens and decide on the actions to take in each case. The work is complemented with QR links to videos of collecting and processing samples and the visualization of some of these parasites under the microscope.
