First aid and emergency care for the avian casualty

In Practice

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 190-203

  Cousquer, Glen ^a,b  

^a Research Animals Department   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATED CARBON; ADRENALIN; AMOXICILLIN; AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; ATROPINE; BISMUTH SALT; BUPRENORPHINE; BUTORPHANOL; CARPROFEN; CLINDAMYCIN; DEXAMETHASONE; DIAZEPAM; DOXAPRAM; DUPHALYTE; EDETATE CALCIUM DISODIUM; ENROFLOXACIN; GLUCONATE CALCIUM; GLUCOSE; INFUSION FLUID; KAOLIN; KETOPROFEN; LIQUID PARAFFIN; MARBOFLOXACIN; MELOXICAM; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PREDNISOLONE SODIUM SUCCINATE; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; STEROID; SULFONAMIDE; TETRACYCLINE DERIVATIVE; UNINDEXED DRUG;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANIMAL CARE; ARTICLE; BIRD DISEASE; BRADYCARDIA; DEHYDRATION; DISEASE CONTROL; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EXOTIC SPECIES; FIRST AID; FLUID THERAPY; GENERAL CONDITION DETERIORATION; HEAD INJURY; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HEAVY METAL POISONING; HYPOCALCEMIA; HYPOGLYCEMIA; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; MUSCLE NECROSIS; NEPHROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; PATIENT REFERRAL; RESPIRATION DEPRESSION; RESUSCITATION; SEIZURE; SURGEON; TELEPHONE; VETERINARY MEDICINE; WILD SPECIES;

ANIMALIA; AVES;

EID: 17644393166     PISSN: 0263841X     EISSN: 20427689     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/inpract.27.4.190     Document Type: Article

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