Clinical Pathology for the Veterinary Team
Andrew J Rosenfeld, DVM, ABVP and Sharon M. Dial, DVM, PhD, DACVP

Review by Brandy Sprunger, CVT, RVT Star
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If you are looking for a book to teach yourself or your staff about the very basics of Clinical Pathology and how it pertains to disease, then this book is perfect for you. If you are more interested in learning the in-depth details of how a disease process results in certain Clinical Pathology changes, you may be better served with a more detailed textbook.

The Forward expresses the importance of having well-trained, qualified staff performing the lab work necessary for patient care. It also explains why the staff should be proficient at the skills required to perform lab work, but also the reasons why the test is being performed, what the results mean, and how they pertain to nursing care and disease management.

There are fifteen chapters on different body systems, what the correlating lab work should look like, and what an abnormal result can mean. Because many diseases involve more than one body system, much of the information is repeated multiple times throughout the text. The order of the chapters also seems a bit disorganized as well, but information is very easy to find and reference. There are many beautiful photos, illustrations, and graphs throughout the book, though some are a bit complicated for the simplistic text it accompanies. In the early part of the book, there were many spelling and grammatical errors that could cause some confusion or misinformation (i.e. a caption for a photo for a cephalic blood draw states that the blood is being drawn from the cephalic artery).

The textbook comes with a CD-Rom that is meant to be used as a training tool for staff and/or students; however I found it very messy. While it may have been a formatting issue with my computer, I found it frustrating to use and couldn’t give it much time. It is set up as a PowerPoint presentation of different cases that are worked through based on the Clinical Pathology knowledge the student learned from reading the text. While the idea is a good one, hopefully other users don’t find the CD as hard to use as I did.

I found the best part of this text to be the Appendices. They are full of pictures, tables and algorithms, and one Appendix is for using the CD-Rom. There is also a very large, helpful Glossary as well. For the most part, this text is a very good beginner Clinical Pathology text book. It gives the very basics of running controls on lab machines, making and reading blood smears, using Unopette systems, normal’s and abnormal's for different body systems and how diseases affect Clinical Pathology. As someone who wants a lot of detail when learning or reading about a disease process and its resulting sequelae, I found myself wishing there was a bit more information, and resisted the temptation to pull additional textbooks for more information. Overall, this is a good book for a student or newly practicing veterinary technician or assistant. Veterinarians, due to their training, will not be likely to find this book useful, although their staff may refer to it frequently.

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010

284pg. Soft cover

ISBN: 978-0-8138-1008-9

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Table of Contents
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Introduction
Alternative Medicine
Anatomy
Anesthesia/Analgesia
Animal Welfare
Aquatic/Fish
Avian
Behavior
Camelids
Canine
Cardiology
Client Education
Cytology / Hematology / Histology
Dental
Dermatology
Dictionary/Reference
Drugs/Pharmacology
Emergency Med
Endocrine
Epidemiology
Equine
Ethics
Exotics
Feline
Food Animals/Livestock
General
Genetics
Geriatrics
Handling & Restraint
Human-Animal Bond
Imaging & Radiology
Immunology
Infectious Diseases
Internal Medicine
Laboratory Medicine
Microbiology
Multimedia
Neurology
Nutrition
Oncology
Ophthalmology
Orthopedics
Parasitology
Pathology
 
* BSAVA Canine Feline Haematology
 
* Handbook Urinalysis (VSPN Review)
 
* Lab. Vet. Tech. 5th Ed. (VSPN Review)
 
* Pathogenesis Bacterial Infection 3rd Ed.
 
* Vet. Forensics
 
Animal Abuse: Forensic
 
Antimicrobial Resistance in Animals and Public Health (VSPN)
 
Blackwell Lab. Tests (VSPN Review)
 
Clinical Pathology
 
Clinical Pathology & Laboratory Techniques for Veterinary Technicians (VSPN)
 
You are hereClinical Pathology for the Veterinary Team
 
Duncan & Prasse's Veterinary Laboratory Medicine Clinical Pathology, 5th ed
 
Equine Clinical Medicine, Surgery and Reproduction
 
Equine Clinical Pathology (VSPN)
 
Fundamental Clin. Path. 2nd Ed.
 
General Pathology Nurses (VSPN Review)
 
Intro. Vet. Comp. Forensic
 
Intro. Vet. Pathology 3rd Ed.
 
Kirkbride’s Diagnosis of Abortion and Neonatal Loss in Animals 4th (VSPN)
 
Lab. Urinalysis Hematology
 
Path. Rod. Rabbit 3rd Ed.
 
Pathologic Basis of Veterinary Disease, 5th Ed.
 
Pathological Basis of Veterinary Disease, 5th Ed. (VSPN Review)
 
Pathology of Pet and Aviary Birds (VSPN)
 
Small Animal Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics 2nd Ed.
 
Small Animal Pathology for Veterinary Technicians (VSPN)
 
Vet. Clin. Path. Intro.
 
* Lab. Profile SA 3rd Ed.
 
* Mechanisms of Disease 3rd Ed.
 
* Path. Rod. Rabbit 2nd Ed.
 
* Pathologic Basis 4th Ed. (VSPN Review)
 
* Pathology Pet Aviary
Pediatrics
Physiology
Physiotherapy
Practice Management
Primates
Rabbits, Rodents & Ferrets
Reproduction
Reptile/Amphibian
Research
Respiratory
Ruminants
Sheep/Goats
Shelter Medicine
Surgery
Swine
Technicians
Toxicology
Urology/Renal
Veterinary Education
Wildlife-Zoo Animals
Zoonoses

Date Published: February 8, 2011

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