Potential risks, prognostic indicators, and diagnostic and treatment modalities affecting survival in dogs with presumptive aspiration pneumonia: 125 cases (2005-2008)

Journal of Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 319-329

  Tart, Kelly M ^a   Babski, Danielle M ^a,b   Lee, Justine A ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^c Pet Poison Helpline   (United States)

Author keywords

Adverse event; Dog; General anesthesia; Lung pathology; Pneumonitis; Vomiting

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; GASTROINTESTINAL AGENT; HYPNOTIC SEDATIVE AGENT; OXYGEN;

ADRENAL CORTEX HYPERFUNCTION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION PNEUMONIA; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; COLLOID; DOG; DOG DISEASE; ECONOMICS; FEMALE; FOREIGN BODY; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HYPOTHYROIDISM; MALE; NEOPLASM; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR;

ADRENOCORTICAL HYPERFUNCTION; ANESTHESIA, GENERAL; ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; COLLOIDS; DOG DISEASES; DOGS; FEMALE; FOREIGN BODIES; GASTROINTESTINAL AGENTS; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; HYPNOTICS AND SEDATIVES; HYPOTHYROIDISM; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; MALE; NEOPLASMS; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; OXYGEN; PNEUMONIA, ASPIRATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; CANIS FAMILIARIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MYCOPLASMA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS;

EID: 77954779429     PISSN: 14793261     EISSN: 14764431     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1476-4431.2010.00542.x     Document Type: Article

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