Acid-Base and Electrolyte Handbook for Veterinary Technicians provides an easy to understand yet comprehensive approach to acid-base and electrolyte balance. Key features include: Coverage of the physiology of fluids and their effect on acid-base and electrolyte balance; detailed information on managing acid-base and electrolyte derangements in disease. This is a useful addition to the veterinary acid-base literature and could be used by students or practitioners of veterinary medicine or veterinary technology...The book is written by veterinary technicians for veterinary technicians. It is of high quality and moderate complexity...The editors are to be commended for including a chapter on the strong ion approach to acid-base in veterinary patients. This feature is still lacking in many books, despite the wide scientific acceptance of the strong ion approach. It is often omitted for its mathematical complexity and potential lack of utility, but the author of that chapter does a good job of explaining the easy utility of strong ion difference clinically even if the total strong ion approach remains out of reach practically.224 p.
- Angela Randels-Thorp, CVT, VTS (ECC, SAIM), Team Director for 1st Pet Veterinary Centers, and Emergency, specialty, and General practice hospital with three locations in Arizona; Lecturer internationally on both critical care and internal medicine topics, including acid-base and electrolyte imbalances.
- David Liss, RVT, VTS (ECC, SAIM), Program Director of a Veterinary Technology program at Platt College in Los Angeles, CA (USA); ICU technician at VCA Veterinary Specialists of the Valley in Woodland Hills, CA (US); Owner of a consulting business, Veterinary Training and Consulting, Inc; Lecturer nationally on critical care topics.
- Publication date (digital version): 2016-12.