Essentially, our job in veterinary emergency and critical care medicine is to help get our animal friends out of harms’ ways 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and 365 days a year.
Veterinary Technician’s Manual for Small Animal Emergency and Critical Care serves to provide veterinary paraprofessionals with a cutting edge reference as to the patho- physiology, epidemiology, signs, diagnosis, treatment, and general nursing techniques of the most common veterinary emergencies. The book has been organized into sections following that of the qualifying exam for the Academy of Veterinary Emergency & Criti- cal Care Technicians (AVECCT) and may be a helpful aid for those preparing to write the exam. The end goal of this work, however, is to become a critical and respected resource which expands the knowledge base of veterinary paraprofessionals and, ultimately, results in better patient care and increased know-how when seconds count to save lives.