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OverviewGain the understanding you need to provide compassionate, end-of-life pet care. Animal Hospice and Palliative Medicine for the House Call Veterinarian provides an all-in-one guide to the skills and challenges related to this growing area of veterinary care. From setting up your business and performing your first in-home consultation to managing pain, performing in-home euthanasia, and providing grief support to the family, this book walks you through each step of care. Written by Dr. Lynn Hendrix, a leading expert and researcher in veterinary palliative medicine, this practical resource shows how to improve the quality of care for pets in the final stages of life. Comprehensive coverage addresses the essential topics of palliative care, hospice, and euthanasia. Key topics range from setting up a mobile business, in-home consultations to pain management, euthanasia, physical support for the pet, and much more. Information on the diseases commonly seen at the end of life includes disease progression and trajectories. Single-source review covers animal end-of-life care and consulting, specifically through mobile veterinary services. 100 full-color clinical photos depict the concepts and procedures of animal palliative care. Practical insights are provided in the areas of family grief support, compassion fatigue, managing difficult home visits, and dispelling the myths of animal hospice and euthanasia. Author Lynn Hendrix is an expert veterinarian with than a decade of experience in the field of Veterinary Palliative Medicine and is also the owner/founder of Beloved Pet Mobile Vet, a company providing in-home animal hospice and euthanasia. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Lynn HendrixPublisher: Elsevier - Health Sciences Division Imprint: Elsevier - Health Sciences Division Weight: 0.880kg ISBN: 9780323567985ISBN 10: 0323567983 Pages: 444 Publication Date: 24 October 2022 Audience: College/higher education , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Not yet available  This item is yet to be released. You can pre-order this item and we will dispatch it to you upon its release. Table of ContentsPreface Lynn Hendrix DVM 1. Introduction-History of Animal Hospice Lynn Hendrix DVM 2. Changing the Paradigm Lynn Hendrix DVM 3. How to set up your business Lynn Hendrix DVM and Mina Weakley 4. Going into the home-First consultation Lynn Hendrix DVM 5. Disease and Symptom Management Lynn Hendrix DVM and Mina Alberta Gloria Weakley 6. Pain management Lynn Hendrix DVM and Eve Harrison 7. Physical support Lynn Hendrix DVM and Carolyn Naun 8. Interdisciplinary team Lynn Hendrix DVM 9. Grief support Lynn Hendrix DVM 10. Palliated Death Lynn Hendrix DVM 11. Euthanasia Lynn Hendrix DVM and Anthony J. Smith 12. Aftercare Lynn Hendrix DVM 13. Compassion fatigue, Burnout and Impostor Syndrome Lynn Hendrix DVM 14. Personal Safety and Difficult Visits Lynn Hendrix DVM 15. Additional training/Organizations involved in Animal Hospice Lynn Hendrix DVM 16. The Future of Veterinary Palliative Medicine and Animal Hospice. Lynn Hendrix DVM Appendix Lynn Hendrix DVMReviewsAuthor InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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