Animal Hospice and Palliative Medicine for the House Call Vet - E-Book (eBook)

Lynn Hendrix (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2022 | 1. Auflage
400 Seiten
Elsevier Health Sciences (Verlag)
978-0-323-56799-2 (ISBN)

Infos

Gain the understanding you need to provide compassionate, end-of-life pet care. Animal Hospice and Palliative Medicine for the House Call Veterinarian provides an all-in-one guide to the skills and challenges related to this growing area of veterinary care. From setting up your business and performing your first in-home consultation to managing pain, performing in-home euthanasia, and providing grief support to the family, this book walks you through each step of care. Written by Dr. Lynn Hendrix, a leading expert and researcher in veterinary palliative medicine, this practical resource shows how to improve the quality of care for pets in the final stages of life.

• Comprehensive coverage addresses the essential topics of palliative care, hospice, and euthanasia.
• Key topics range from setting up a mobile business, in-home consultations to pain management, complementary medicine, physical support for the pet, and much more.
• Information on the diseases commonly seen at the end of life includes disease progression and trajectories.
• Single-source review covers animal end-of-life care and consulting, specifically through mobile veterinary services.
• 100 full-color clinical photos depict the concepts and procedures of animal palliative care.
• Practical insights are provided in the areas of family grief support, compassion fatigue, managing difficult home visits, and dispelling the myths of animal hospice and euthanasia.
• Author Lynn Hendrix is an expert veterinarian with than a decade of experience in the field of Veterinary Palliative Medicine and is also the owner/founder of Beloved Pet Mobile Vet, a company providing in-home animal hospice and euthanasia.

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Gain the understanding you need to provide compassionate, end-of-life pet care. Animal Hospice and Palliative Medicine for the House Call Veterinarian provides an all-in-one guide to the skills and challenges related to this growing area of veterinary care. From setting up your business and performing your first in-home consultation to managing pain, performing in-home euthanasia, and providing grief support to the family, this book walks you through each step of care. Written by Dr. Lynn Hendrix, a leading expert and researcher in veterinary palliative medicine, this practical resource shows how to improve the quality of care for pets in the final stages of life. - Comprehensive coverage addresses the essential topics of palliative care, hospice, and euthanasia. - Key topics range from setting up a mobile business, in-home consultations to pain management, euthanasia, physical support for the pet, and much more. - Information on the diseases commonly seen at the end of life includes disease progression and trajectories. - Single-source review covers animal end-of-life care and consulting, specifically through mobile veterinary services. - 100 full-color clinical photos depict the concepts and procedures of animal palliative care. - Practical insights are provided in the areas of family grief support, compassion fatigue, managing difficult home visits, and dispelling the myths of animal hospice and euthanasia. - Author Lynn Hendrix is an expert veterinarian with than a decade of experience in the field of Veterinary Palliative Medicine and is also the owner/founder of Beloved Pet Mobile Vet, a company providing in-home animal hospice and euthanasia.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 20.10.2022
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Veterinärmedizin ► Klinische Fächer
• ISBN-10: 0-323-56799-1 / 0323567991
• ISBN-13: 978-0-323-56799-2 / 9780323567992