Small Animal Clinical Techniques

Chapter 1 VENOUS BLOOD COLLECTION

Chapter 2 ARTERIAL BLOOD COLLECTION

Chapter 3 INJECTION TECHNIQUES

Chapter 4 DERMATOLOGIC TECHNIQUES

Chapter 5 EAR EXAMINATION

Chapter 6 OCULAR TECHNIQUES

Chapter 7 RESPIRATORY SYSTEM TECHNIQUES

Chapter 8 PERICARDIOCENTESIS

Chapter 9 GASTROINTESTINAL SYSTEM TECHNIQUES

Chapter 10 URINARY SYSTEM TECHNIQUES

Chapter 11 VAGINAL CYTOLOGY

Chapter 12 BONE MARROW COLLECTION

Chapter 13 ARTHROCENTESIS

Chapter 14 CEREBROSPINAL FLUID COLLECTION

List of Procedures

Procedure 1-1 JUGULAR VENIPUNCTURE

Procedure 1-2 JUGULAR VENIPUNCTURE, INVERTED TECHNIQUE

Procedure 1-3 CEPHALIC VENIPUNCTURE

Procedure 1-4 LATERAL SAPHENOUS VENIPUNCTURE

Procedure 1-5 MEDIAL SAPHENOUS VENIPUNCTURE

Procedure 2-1 COLLECT ARTERIAL BLOOD FROM THE FEMORAL ARTERY

Procedure 2-2 COLLECT ARTERIAL BLOOD FROM THE DORSAL PEDAL ARTERY

Procedure 3-1 INTRAVENOUS INJECTIONS

Procedure 3-2 INTRAMUSCULAR INJECTIONS

Procedure 3-3 SUBCUTANEOUS INJECTIONS

Procedure 4-1 SKIN SCRAPING

Procedure 4-2 CELLOPHANE TAPE METHOD

Procedure 4-3 VACUUMING

Procedure 4-4 BACTERIAL CULTURE OF SKIN PUSTULE

Procedure 4-5 SKIN BIOPSY

Procedure 4-6 WOODS LAMP EXAMINATION

Procedure 5-1 EAR EXAMINATION

Procedure 6-1 SCHIRMER TEAR TEST

Procedure 6-2 CONJUNCTIVAL CULTURE

Procedure 6-3 FLUORESCEIN STAINING

Procedure 6-4 FLUSHING THE NASOLACRIMAL DUCTS

Procedure 6-5 APPLYING TOPICAL MEDICATIONS IN THE EYE

Procedure 6-6 CONJUNCTIVAL SCRAPINGS

Procedure 7-1 RESPIRATORY EXAMINATION AND AUSCULTATION

Procedure 7-2 INTERNAL NASAL EXAMINATION

Procedure 7-3 PHARYNGEAL EXAMINATION

Procedure 7-4 LARYNGEAL EXAMINATION

Procedure 7-5 TRANSTRACHEAL WASH - SMALL AND LARGE DOG

Procedure 7-6 SMALL DOG TRANSTRACHEAL WASH

Procedure 7-7 LARGE DOG TRACHEAL WASH

Procedure 7-8 ENDOTRACHEAL WASH

Procedure 7-9 BRONCHOSCOPIC BRONCHOALVEOLAR LAVAGE (BAL)

Procedure 7-10 LUNG ASPIRATION

Procedure 7-11 THORACOCENTESIS

Procedure 8-1 PERICARDIOCENTESIS

Procedure 9-1 ORAL EXAMINATION

Procedure 9-2 OROGASTRIC INTUBATION (PASSING A STOMACH TUBE)

Procedure 9-3 NASOGASTRIC INTUBATION

Procedure 9-4 ANAL SAC PALPATION AND EXPRESSION

Procedure 9-5 PERCUTANEOUS TRANSABDOMINAL LIVER BIOPSY

Procedure 9-6 FINE NEEDLE ASPIRATION BIOPSY OF THE LIVER

Procedure 9-7 ABDOMINOCENTESIS

Procedure 9-8 DIAGNOSTIC PERITONEAL LAVAGE (DPL)

Procedure 10-1 URINE COLLECTION BY CYSTOCENTESIS

Procedure 10-2 URINARY CATHETERIZATION: MALE CAT

Procedure 10-3 URINARY CATHETERIZATION: MALE DOG

Procedure 10-4 URINARY CATHETERIZATION: FEMALE DOG

Procedure 10-5 PROSTATIC WASH

Procedure 11-1 OBTAINING VAGINAL SAMPLES

Procedure 12-1 BONE MARROW ASPIRATION

Procedure 12-2 BONE MARROW CORE

Procedure 13-1 ARTHROCENTESIS

Procedure 14-1 CEREBROSPINAL FLUID COLLECTION