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Practical Cardiology for Veterinary Nurses PDF is One of The Best Books For Vet Techs In Our Library. It provides a comprehensive, practical guide for veterinary nurses and technicians who wish to develop their knowledge, confidence and skills when nursing the cardiac patient. Presentation of dogs or cats with heart disease is common, and it is vital that nurses understand how to look after these patients appropriately and support owners through what can often be challenging times.
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The training content included early diagnosis, first aid, ophthalmology, cardiology, respiratory, lameness diagnosis, image analysis, digestive organs, orthopedics, genitals, anesthesia management, and pathological autopsy, which are important when practicing horse emergency veterinary care. Practical training (practice) items such as group discussions were carried out using a simulated model.
Our study revealed that practical online training is possible and useful for students in the horse emergency veterinary practice training program at Yamaguchi University. During this online training, it was possible to conduct many of the hands-on training items performed during the preclinical period. To pursue this option, however, it is necessary to consider the IT environment of the students for any long-term training. Practical training by a specialized external instructor can be practiced in undergraduate education using the methods described above. It is believed that this opens up the possibility for educational coordination between affiliated universities.
The American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine (ACVIM) has just published a consensus statement, providing guidelines for veterinary surgeons to help them manage cases of feline cardiomyopathy (Luis Fuentes et al, 2020). This is great news for veterinary nurses as well, because nursing recommendations have also been included. The guidelines acknowledge that it has been challenging for veterinary surgeons to define and classify feline heart disease, especially when they are frequently presented with a dyspnoeic and/or uncooperative cat. It also accepts that if there is no trained cardiologist available, then skilled techniques such as echocardiography can prove difficult. The new guidelines have changed the way that the disease is classified, but importantly also puts emphasis on a new staging system which can help guide treatment, changing focus to a more practical and clinical approach of the patient. The ACVIM Consensus Statement can be read in full here:
The new ACVIM guidelines have provided some much needed clarity and recommendations for those veterinary professionals managing cats with cardiomyopathies. The nursing guidelines can help nurses understand cardiomyopathies, be aware of treatment aims, and provide a frame of reference to help their own practice, based on the best of current thinking. The fact that these guidelines are free to access means that they can be a vital addition to any veterinary setting.
Sonya G. Gordon, DVM, DVSc, DACVIM (Cardiology), is an associate professor of cardiology in the Department of Small Animal Clinical Sciences at Texas A&M University College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences where she is part of a busy progressive cardiology program. She is routinely an invited speaker at local, national and international veterinary meetings. Although she considers herself a clinician and teacher first her research interests include canine chronic valve disease, dilated cardiomyopathy, imaging, interventional procedures and clinical trials. She has published numerous manuscripts and book chapters and co-authored a practical small animal clinical cardiology book entitled The ABCDs of Small Animal Cardiology. 041b061a72