Authored by: Beate Egner, Anthony Carr, Scott Brown $119

The only book to focus specifically on the different aspects of blood pressure in veterinary medicine.

“The new blood pressure book by Beate Egner is wonderful. The text truly represents the ‘bible’ for blood pressure and is essential for every veterinary library.” – Larry P. Tilley, DVM, DACVIM

LifeLearn announces the NEW 2nd Edition of the landmark Essential Facts of Blood Pressure in Dogs & Cats book. This book is a practical reference guide to help integrate an understanding of blood pressure into everyday clinical practice.  Measuring blood pressure in small animals is possibly one of the most neglected aspects of routine healthcare in veterinary practice today.

Updated sections on:

• Importance of blood pressure measurement—principles, practical applications, indications, techniques, interpretation
• Pathological changes in blood pressure—how and why a patient suffers from hypertension and hypotension
• End-organ damage—heart, eye, kidney and brain damage, diagnosis, treatment
• Therapy—in-depth understanding of hyper- and hypotension and drug treatment
• Economics—blood pressure measurements and the clinic’s image and profitability

New chapters on:

• Anesthesiology—control and treatment of blood pressure under anesthesia
• High-definition oscillometry (HDO)—a newly developed technology for measuring blood pressure in small animals

256 pages, 25 tables and charts, 118 full color and fully indexed photographs and illustrations, and a 3-page appendix on the ACVIM hypertension consensus statement.

Included with the book is a NEW 35-minute video on DVD (replacing the previous 15-minute CD-ROM in the 1st edition), which demonstrates how to reliably measure blood pressure and how to evaluate the eye and heart for end-organ damage.