Veterinary Anesthesia and Analgesia: The Sixth Edition of Lumb and Jones

Veterinary Anesthesia and Analgesia: The Sixth Edition of Lumb and Jones
A thoroughly updated new edition of the foundational reference on veterinary anesthesia and
analgesia Veterinary Anesthesia and Analgesia: The Sixth Edition of Lumb and Jones is a fully updated revision to this comprehensive, authoritative reference to all aspects of veterinary anesthesia and pain management. Encompassing both scientific principles and clinical applications, the new edition adds new knowledge, techniques, and discussion of emerging issues throughout. Fourteen new chapters significantly expand the coverage of patient monitoring modalities and nociception and pain, while presenting new information on safety culture, infection prevention and control, biomedical engineering, and point-of-care ultrasound. Logically organized into sections, information on basic principles, pharmacology, specific body systems, and specific species is easy to access. Comparative anesthetic considerations for dogs and cats, horses, ruminants, swine, laboratory animals, free-ranging terrestrial mammals, marine mammals, reptiles, amphibians, fish, and birds are discussed. Chapters are devoted to anesthesia and pain management of common domestic species
and patient populations, including updated chapters on local and regional anesthetic and analgesic techniques. A companion website offers video clips of point-of-care ultrasound techniques and pain recognition guidelines as well as pain scales for both acute and chronic pain in multiple species. Readers of Veterinary Anesthesia and Analgesia: The Sixth Edition of Lumb and Jones will also find:
Significantly expanded coverage of patient monitoring, including chapters devoted to anesthetic depth and electroencephalography, electrocardiography, blood pressure, oxygenation, ventilation, anesthetic gas monitoring.
About the Author
The editors
LEIGH LAMONT, DVM, MS, DACVAA, is a Professor of Anesthesiology at the Atlantic Veterinary College, University of Prince Edward Island in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada.
KURT GRIMM, DVM, MS, PhD, DACVAA, DACVCP, is the Founder of Veterinary Specialist Services in Conifer, Colorado, USA.
SHEILAH ROBERTSON, BVMS (Hons), CertVA, PhD, DACVAA, DECVAA, DACAW, DECAWBM (AWSEL), FRCVS, is the Senior Medical Director of Lap of Love Veterinary Hospice Inc. in Lutz, Florida, USA and a courtesy Professor at the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, USA.
LYDIA LOVE, DVM, DACVAA, is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology at North Carolina State University College of Veterinary Medicine in Raleigh, North Carolina, USA.
CARRIE SCHROEDER, DVM, DACVAA, is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Anesthesia and Pain Management, University of Wisconsin School of Veterinary Medicine in Madison, Wisconsin, USA.