Hospital Biosecurity Introduction Cycle of Infection Transmission Patient Placement in the Hospital Proper Gowning Techniques Hand Hygiene Disinfection and Sterilization Hospital Management Infection Control Programs Surveillance Multidrug Resistant Organisms, Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus sp., and Zoonotic Diseases Zoonotic Diseases Summary References Restraint Introduction Knots Basic Behavior of Large Animals Small Ruminant Restraint Camelid Restraint Bovine Restraint Equine Restraint Swine Restraint References History Introduction Ruminants Camelids Equine Porcine Multiple Species Management References Physical Exam Introduction Food Animal Physical Exam Equine Physical Exam The Equine Pain Score Summary References Nutrition Introduction Equine Nutrition Cattle Nutrition Camelid Nutrition Sheep and Goat Nutrition Swine Nutrition Summary References Clinical Procedures Introduction Venous Catheterization Arterial Catheterization Urinary Catheterization Tracheostomy Blood Products and Administration Medication Administration Fluid Administration Intraosseous Administration Nasogastric and Orogastric Intubation Transfaunation Ongoing Monitoring Nursing Care for the Recumbent Patient Dentistry References Diagnostic Procedures Introduction Abdominocentesis Arthrocentesis Bronchiolar Alveolar Lavage (BAL) Biopsies Cerebral Spinal Fluid Tap (CSF) Coagulation Studies Dermatology Electrocardiogram Endoscopy Milk Cultures Thoracocentesis Transtracheal Wash References Medical Imaging Introduction Safety and Quality Radiography Nuclear Scintigraphy Ultrasonography Magnetic Resonance Imaging Computed Tomography References Reproduction Introduction Anatomy and Physiology of Reproduction Clinical Examination of the Male and Female for Breeding Soundness Reproductive Disorders Reproductive Management References Neonatology Introduction Perinatal Period Neonatal Infections Premature Neonates Nursing Care References Diseases Disease Actinobacillus Pleuropneumonia (APP) Acute Hypocalcemia (Milk fever) Anaplamosis Anemia Anterior Uveitis Anthrax Ascaridiasis Atrophic Rhinitis Bacillary Hemoglobinuria (a.k.a., Red Water Disease, clostridial hepatitis) Blackleg Bloat (Ruminal tympany) Blue Tongue (a.k.a., BTV, Catarral Fever) Botulism Bovine Coronavirus (BCV) Bovine Herpes Virus 1 Infection (Infectious Bovine Rhinotracheitis [IBR]) Bovine Leukemia Virus (BLV); Adult Lymphosarcoma Bovine Papular Stomatitis (BPS) Bovine Viral Diarrhea (BVD) Brucellosis Calf Scours Campylobacteriosis Cancer Eye Ocular Squamous Cell Carcinoma (SCC) Candidiasis (Thrush) Caseous Lymphadenitis (CL) Cervical Vertebral Stenotic Myelopathy (CVSM, a.k.a., Wobbler's Syndrome) Choke Chorioptic Mange Clostridium perfringens Diarrhea Coccidiosis Colitis Contagious Ecthyma (a.k.a., Orf, SoreMouth) Corneal Ulceration Demodectic Mange, Demodicosis Contagious Equine Metritis (CEM) Digital Dermatitis (Hairy heel wart, Papillomatous digital dermatitis, Mortellaro's disease) Eperythrozoonosis Equine Degenerative Myeloencephalopathy (EDM) Equine Gastric Ulcer Syndrome Equine Herpesvirus Myeloencephalopathy (EHM) Equine Infectious Anemia (EIA) Equine Motor Neuron Disease (EMND) Equine Protozoal Myeloencephalitis (EPM) Equine Viral Arteritis (EVA) Equine Viral Encephalitides (EEE, WEE, VEE) Entropion Erysipelas Escherichia coli Exertional Rhabdomyolysis (ER; a.k.a., Monday Morning Disease, azoturia, Equine rhabdomyolysis syndrome, tying-up, chronic exertional rhabdomyolysis) Fescue Toxicity Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) Foot Rot Grass Tetany Guttural Pouch Empyema Guttural Pouch Mycosis Haemophilus parasuis (Glässer's Disease) Head Trauma Hepatic Encephalopathy Hog Cholera (Classical Swine Fever) Hyperkalemic Periodic Paralysis (HYPP) Infectious Bovine Keratoconjunctivitis (IBK, “Pink eye”) Influenza Iodine Deficiency Johne's Disease (Paratuberculosis) Ketosis Laminitis Leptospirosis Lice Leukoencephalomalacia (Moldy Corn Disease) Listeriosis Lumpy Jaw (Actinomycosis) Malignant Hyperthermia (Porcine Stress Syndrome) Mastitis Melanoma Neosporosis Ovine Progressive Pneumonia (OPP), Maedi Parelaphostrongylosis Pasteurella Pneumonia Phenylbutazone Toxicity Polioencephalomalacia Polyneuritis Equi (Cauda Equina Neuritis) Polysaccharide Storage Myopathy (a.k.a., PSSM, EPSM, EPSSM) Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome (PRRS) Potomac Horse Fever (a.k.a., Equine Monocytic Ehrlichiosis, Equine Ehrlichial Colitis, Ditch fever, PHF) Precocious Udder (Inappropriate Lactation) Pseudorabies (PRV, Aujeszky's disease) Psoroptic Mange (Common Sheep Scab) Pulpy Kidney Disease (Type D enterotoxemia, overeating disease) Q Fever Recurrent Airway Obstruction (RAO, a.k.a., heaves or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease) Rabies Ringworm (Dermatophytosis) Salmonellosis Sarcoptic Mange Scrapie Septic Arthritis Sheep and Goat Pox Strangles Streptococcal Infections Swine Influenza Tetanus Trichomoniasis Ulcerative Dermatosis Urolithiasis Vesicular Stomatitis Warts (Cutaneous papillomas) West Nile Virus Infection (WNV) White Muscle Disease Wooden Tongue (Actinobacilosis)