Veterinary Treatment for Working Equines

This book is comprised of 20 chapters covering several aspects of equine medicine, with focus on horses used as working animals. It serves as a quick guide to help equine practitioners in the field worldwide, particularly those who have no access to sophisticated equipment. The topics discussed are vital signs and normal values, simple diagnostic tests, behaviour and restraint, veterinary equipment, veterinary medicines, vaccines, sedation, field anaesthesia and euthanasia, nutrition, dentistry, hoof conditions and problems within the hoof capsule, orthopaedics, wounds, respiratory, cardiac and circulatory conditions, gastroenteric conditions, neurological and locomotory conditions, eye conditions, urogenital conditions, poisons, skin conditions, harness and tack.