By Charles S. Farrow DVM
With a spotlight on birds, reptiles, and mammals, Veterinary Diagnostic Imaging: Avian and unique Pets discusses veterinary diagnostic imaging and new applied sciences for a number of modalities that can assist you adequately diagnose and pinpoint universal accidents and sickness. Divided into 3 sections - Birds, Mammals, and Reptiles - each one part comprises beneficial details on positioning for particular buildings, imaging findings, and extra for every species with a wealth of images to supply real-life examples.
- Atlas-sized radiographs let you simply visualize the damage or indication of disease.
- Comparison radiographs demonstrate a standard photograph with an irregular photograph to spotlight changes and assist you establish abnormalities in practice.
- ''Telescopic'' pictures supply close-up perspectives of bigger radiographs that can assist you establish salient issues obvious within the radiograph.
- Content adapted to every species highlights the typical accidents and illnesses for every avian and unique species.
- Discussions of a number of modalities together with ultrasound, MRI, and CT offer the entire details you wish for diagnostic imaging in a single resource.
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B, Roasted peanuts are an excellent, no fuss, short-term food source for hospitalized jays and magpies but should be unsalted. B Figure 2-4 • Portrait view of an adult jay with raised dorsal crest ready to take a peanut from a feeder. indd 27 2/11/2008 10:51:43 AM 28 SECTION I I I I The Birds Figure 2-5 • Canadian geese in formation. Figure 2-6 • A gander oversees a small super family as they feed along the riverbank. indd 28 2/11/2008 10:51:44 AM CHAPTER 2 I I I Wild Birds 29 Figure 2-7 • An unconscious Canadian goose being examined before being radiographed.
Canaries, lovebirds, and parakeets can be quite fragile, especially when they are seriously ill, and in such circumstances, we are reluctant to use gas restraint unless absolutely necessary. Some of our minimal and nonrestraint techniques are described here. general anesthesia; the same being true with computed radiography (CR) or digital radiography (DR) systems. The method of tape restraint has been published widely, with numerous examples appearing elsewhere in this book. Nonrestraint Small birds that cannot be drugged, anesthetized, or safely restrained manually can be imaged by other means.
Figure 4-12 • An A-10 “Warthog” viewed from behind shows its striking engine nacelles flanked by a pair of large tail fins. indd 52 2/11/2008 10:52:46 AM CHAPTER 4 I I I The Wing: Particulars of Flight side surface area aft of the plane’s center of gravity. However, birds may achieve a similar effect by curling their wingtips (Figure 4-13) and arching their tails horizontally (Figure 4-14). 53 birds are about to set down, they rotate and cup their wings and drop their tails, presenting maximum surface area to the wind, and increasing drag.