[Textbook]Laboratory Animal and Exotic Pet Medicine: Principles and Procedures 3rd Edition by Margi Sirois EdD MS RVT CVT LAT VTES

This educational textbook helps veterinary technicians understand the role in the care of exotic pets and biomedical research animals. Laboratory Animal and Exotic Pet Medicine: Principles and Procedures, 3rd Edition helps you gain the knowledge needed to ensure animal health. It covers animal husbandry, restraint, and handling educational theories, and provides guidelines to study clinical procedures such as blood collection protocols, medication administration techniques, anesthesia monitoring, and diagnostic imaging. Research-related information addresses the ethical concerns of exotic pet ownership. Written by noted veterinary technology educator Margi Sirois, this text is a must-have resource for all students of lab animal care.

• Comprehensive coverage prepares you to work with all types of animals by addressing a wide variety of species including rats, mice, rabbits, guinea pigs, ferrets, hamsters, gerbils, nonhuman primates, amphibians, fish, reptiles, birds, farm animals, and cats and dogs; it also covers educational topics such as animal species, the laboratory setting, regulatory guidelines, and ethical considerations.
• Consistent organization of each species chapter makes it easy to quickly identify similarities and differences among various laboratory animals.
• Current information on legal, moral, and ethical issues includes legal requirements, the protocols guiding lab animal use, animal exploitation, and animal rights.
• Discussion of specific uses for each species in biomedical research provides a perspective that helps you explain the benefits of animal use in providing high-quality research data.
• Technician Notes highlight important points and provide helpful tips to improve your knowledge and skills.
• Learning objectives, key points, and chapter review questions make studying easier.
• NEW! Comprehensive coverage of poultry includes the increasingly popular backyard chickens, as well as commonly performed procedures and in-depth information on housing, restraint, nutrition, common diseases, diagnostics, and therapeutics theories.
• NEW photographs show the latest technology available in laboratory and exotic animal medicine education.