Animal Hospice and Palliative Medicine for the House Call Veterinarian
Gain 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.
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Preface
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1. Introduction-History of Animal Hospice
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2. Changing the Paradigm
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3. How to set up your business
Lynn Hendrix DVM and Mina Weakley
4. Going into the home-First consultation
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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
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9. Grief support
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10. Palliated Death
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11. Euthanasia
Lynn Hendrix DVM and Anthony J. Smith
12. Aftercare
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13. Compassion fatigue, Burnout and Impostor Syndrome
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14. Personal Safety and Difficult Visits
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15. Additional training/Organizations involved in Animal Hospice
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16. The Future of Veterinary Palliative Medicine and Animal Hospice.
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Appendix
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