Animal Hospice and Palliative Medicine for the House Call Veterinarian
- 1 Edición - 20 de octubre de 2022
- Última edición
- Autor: Lynn Hendrix
- Idioma: Inglés
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-on… Leer más
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.
- 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
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1. Introduction-History of Animal Hospice
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2. Changing the Paradigm
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3. How to set up your business
Lynn Hendrix DVM and Mina Weakley
4. Going into the home-First consultation
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5. Disease and Symptom Management
Lynn Hendrix DVM and Mina Alberta Gloria Weakley
6. Pain management
Lynn Hendrix DVM and Eve Harrison
7. Physical support
Lynn Hendrix DVM and Carolyn Naun
8. Interdisciplinary team
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9. Grief support
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10. Palliated Death
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11. Euthanasia
Lynn Hendrix DVM and Anthony J. Smith
12. Aftercare
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13. Compassion fatigue, Burnout and Impostor Syndrome
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14. Personal Safety and Difficult Visits
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15. Additional training/Organizations involved in Animal Hospice
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16. The Future of Veterinary Palliative Medicine and Animal Hospice.
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- Edición: 1
- Última edición
- Publicado: 20 de octubre de 2022
- Idioma: Inglés