Notes on Feline Internal Medicine

Helping you get started with a problem-solving approach to a sick cat.

feline internal medicine

Kit Sturgess

Notes on Feline Internal Medicine, second edition, is part of a popular series specifically designed, through an accessible note-based style, to ensure veterinarians and students have quick and easy access to comprehensive and practical clinical and diagnostic information.

Distinct differences exist between cats and dogs not only in their physiology and metabolism but also in the way disease tends to present. This book is a short ‘pocket guide’ to feline internal medicine helping you to formulate a diagnostic plan and therapeutic strategy. The focus is on evidence-based medicine where available, otherwise current best-practice is presented.

The book is divided into five sections:

• Section 1 gives an overview of some key areas of feline medicine including paediatric and geriatric medicine.
• Section 2 focuses on the approach to common presenting signs.
• Section 3 covers the differential diagnosis of commonly used haematologic and biochemical parameters.
• Section 4 presents an organ-system based approach.
• Section 5 covers feline infectious diseases.

CHANGES FOR THIS EDITION

• Stronger focus is placed on initial testing for a disease, and what changes might be expected.
• Additional sections have been added on sedation and anaesthesia, health screening, oncology and emergency and critical care.
• More diagrams have been added to aid understanding.
• Care has been taken to avoid repetition and focus on common conditions.