feline internal medicine

Helping you get started with a problem-solving approach to a sick cat.

feline internal medicine

kit sturgess

Notes on Feline Internal Medicine, second edition, is part of a popular series specifically designed, through an accessible note-based style, to ensure veterinarians and students have quick and easy access to comprehensive and practical clinical and diagnostic information.

Distinct differences exist between cats and dogs not only in their physiology and metabolism but also in the way disease tends to present. This book is a short 'pocket guide' to feline internal medicine helping you to formulate a diagnostic plan and therapeutic strategy. The focus is on evidence-based medicine where available, otherwise current best-practice is presented.

The book is divided into five sections:

• Section 1 gives an overview of some key areas of feline medicine including paediatric and geriatric medicine.
• Section 2 focuses on the approach to common presenting signs.
• Section 3 covers the differential diagnosis of commonly used haematologic and biochemical parameters.
• Section 4 presents an organ-system based approach.
• Section 5 covers feline infectious diseases.

CHANGES FOR THIS EDITION

• Stronger focus is placed on initial testing for a disease, and what changes might be expected.
• Additional sections have been added on sedation and anaesthesia, health screening, oncology and emergency and critical care.
• More diagrams have been added to aid understanding.
• Care has been taken to avoid repetition and focus on common conditions.

About the Author

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Dr Kit Sturgess is an RCVS Recognised Specialist in Small Animal Medicine (Internal Medicine). He has been seeing referral small animal medicine cases for the past 20 years both at university-based and private specialist practices. He has authored numerous articles as well as presenting lectures and research abstracts at conferences worldwide.

For full details of all our veterinary titles, including other titles in the Notes on... series, please visit our website at www.wiley.com/go/vet

Reviews

"This book will be a welcome resource for veterinary and graduate students who are studying the fascinating and increasingly complex subject of immunology. It is reasonably priced for practicing veterinarians who want to review the mechanisms or diagnosis of immune-mediated or immunodeficiency diseases or brush up on the concepts of vaccinology." (Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association, 15 September 2014)

"Students will find the format more accessible than most and will welcome this fine survey!." (Midwest Book Review, 1 May 2014)

"This little book is an example of how 'first impressions can be deceiving'. It is quite simply a little gem and deserves its place on the bookshelf next to Ettinger." (Veterinary Record, 21 December 2013)

"In this book Kit Sturgess has provided a high class reference 'pocket guide' to feline internal medicine. It follows an evidence-based format and is in my opinion a useful book to have on any veterinarian's bookshelf. This book will be viewed time and time again, and should be considered essential reading for veterinary students and recently qualified vets in first opinion practice." (EJCAP, 1 October 2013)

Book Information
ISBN 9780470671177
Author Kit Sturgess
Format Paperback
Page Count 440
Imprint Wiley-Blackwell
Publisher John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Weight(grams) 726g
Dimensions(mm) 234mm * 154mm * 21mm