Pain Management for Veterinary Technicians and Nurses

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Stephen Niño Cital, RVT, RLAT, SRA, CVPP, VTS-LAM, is a Veterinary Technician Specialist in Research Anesthesia and Certified Veterinary Pain Practitioner. He is a Lab Manager for Howard Hughes Medical Institute at Stanford University and is an administrator for the Veterinary Anesthesia Nerds, LLC. Stephen is also a partner at Remedy Veterinary Specialists leading the pain service in the San Francisco Bay Area of California.

Tasha McNerney, CVT, CVPP, VTS, is a Veterinary Technician Specialist in Anesthesia and Analgesia and Certified Veterinary Pain Practitioner. She is a board member of the International Academy of Pain Management and founder of Veterinary Anesthesia Nerds, LLC. She is the Training Director at a large specialty referral hospital in the Philadelphia area.

Darci Palmer, BS, LVT, VTS, is a Veterinary Technician Specialist in Anesthesia and Analgesia and trains veterinary students via didactic lectures and clinical skills labs at Tuskegee University College of Veterinary Medicine. She is Executive Secretary for the Academy of Veterinary Technicians in Anesthesia and Analgesia and administrator for Veterinary Anesthesia Nerds, LLC. She works as a private consultant, author, and lecturer in Auburn, AL.

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About the Companion Website

Chapter 1 Advancing Veterinary Pain Management into a New Era

Chapter 2 Pain Management Career Options for Veterinary Technicians and Nurses

Chapter 3 Physiology of Pain & Emotional Expression in Animals

Chapter 4 Integrating Pain Recognition & Scoring

Chapter 5 Analgesic Pharmacology

Chapter 6 Locoregional Analgesic Blocking Techniques

Chapter 7 Acute Pain Management

Chapter 8 Pain Management for C-sections and Neonates

Chapter 9 Analgesia for Emergency and Critical Care Patients

Chapter 10 Analgesia in Equine Practice

Chapter 11 Analgesia for Food and Fiber Species

Chapter 12 Analgesia in Exotic & Laboratory Animals

Chapter 13 Analgesia for Zoo Animal and Wildlife Practice

Chapter 14 Analgesia for Shelter Medicine and Trap-Neuter-Return Programs

Chapter 15 Chronic Pain Management

Chapter 16 Physical Rehabilitation

Chapter 17 Integrative Therapies

Chapter 18 Pain Management for End-of-Life Care & Oncology

Chapter 19 Creating Pain Management Protocols

Appendices

Appendix A: Formulary

Appendix B: Continuous Rate Infusions Example Calculations

Index