Saunders Solutions in Veterinary Practice: Small Animal Oncology - Softcover

Foale BSc BVetMed DSAM DipECVIM MRCVS, Rob D.; Demetriou BVetMed CertSAS DipECVS MRCVS, Jackie

9780702028694: Saunders Solutions in Veterinary Practice: Small Animal Oncology

Softcover

ISBN 10: 070202869X ISBN 13: 9780702028694

Publisher: Saunders Ltd., 2010

Saunders Solutions in Veterinary Practice consists of a series of practical handbooks on selected medical topics on specific veterinary problems. Case-based, this series is aimed at the small animal veterinary practitioner who has qualified less than 10 years and needs quick access to information and wants to increase his/her confidence on handling that range of cases that cover the spectrum that lies between the simple routine first opinion case and the referral.

Solutions in Veterinary Practice provides additional knowledge that will lead to improved skills and practice for veterinary practitioners. Not only practitioners, but also veterinary students nearing the end of their course will find this series very useful to brush up their knowledge in a particular area. The volumes are also written with the veterinary nurse in mind with a particular interest in a specific topic, using 'Nurse Boxes' in the text to guide them to the specific information they need.

new approach: clinical cases offering examination, treatment options, clinical tips relevant for the general small animal veterinary practitioner - all case descriptions based on common template

offers synoptic, easy accessible and essential information

provides essential information on selected topics

authorship ensures accuracy of information

relevant to all general practitioners

written to increase the skill and practice the general veterinary practitioner

intend to meet CPD-need, but focus on: differential diagnosis and practical case handling

offers self-assessment features at the end of every chapter making it relevant for veterinary students as well

broad readership: practitioners and students indicated in the text by ' Notes for Vets'; nurses indicated in the text by 'Notes for Nurses' and pet owners indicated in the text by ' Notes for Pet Owners'

handy format with flexi cover

species covered to be limited to cats, dogs and rabbits

full colour throughout

BSAVA Manuals in various topics, Blackwell, extent varies from 169 to 464 pages, price varies from �47 to �59 for members and �69 to �89 for non-members.
- system based approach case based approach as opposed to Blackwell's disease based approach as we strongly feel that this approach is more beneficial for the practitioner - taking the veterinary practitioner as a starting point (the animal comes in the practice with certain symptoms, then what happens next)
- our books will be synoptic, easy accessible and with the essential information (bullet points) for user-friendliness and easy access to the content. The majority of the BSAVA Manual have included a lot of information and have moved from bullet pointed text to more elaborate text.
- we want the reader to understand why certain steps are taken by means of decision trees: if you do this, then this will happen; if you chose to follow this path, this will be the consequence, etc. It will be quite a challenge to get this right and may not be applicable to every case, but the other potential authors felt very strongly we should include this as this is lacking in the majority of books at the moment
- full colour throughout; no plate sections
- our books will not aim to cover the whole range, but concentrate on the most common cases that general/ small animal practitioners will see in their practice
- coverage of dogs, cats and rabbits
- ours will have handy format and flexi cover; BSAVA Manual published in very large format: 297 x 210 mm (American A4
- BSAVA Manuals do not provide the set-by-step guide as we propose
- manuals have become top heavy recently and drift towards a more academic and less practical approach

Dobson: Small Animal Oncology, 2001, Blackwell, 304 pages, $94.99
- written in note form and without using the case-based approach: from epidemiology, etiology, pathology and presentation through to staging, management, and prognosis of an chosen malignancy

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Saunders Solutions in Veterinary Practice is written for the general small animal practitioner who has qualified less than 10 years and needs quick access to information on selected medical topics and who wants to increase their confidence on handling that range of cases that fall between the boringly routine and the referral. Saunders Solutions in Veterinary Practice is also relevant for veterinary students nearing the end of their course (Self-Assessment Section at the back of the book) and veterinary nurses with a particular interest in the topic.

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