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Elsevier Palliative Medicine and Hospice Care An Issue of Veterinary Clinics of North America Small Animal Practice 1st Edition by Goldberg, Katherine J.
This issue of Veterinary Clinics: Small Animal Practice, edited by Dr. Katherine J. Goldberg, focuses on Advances in Palliative Medicine. Article topics indlue: Pet Hospice Program at Colorado State University; Hospice Care Service at Michigan State University; Pain and Palliative Care Service at Angell Memorial Animal Hospital; Current topics in serious illness and palliative medicine: a curricular initiative at Cornell University; Development and use of the Serious Veterinary Illness Conversation Guide; Ethics of palliative medicine in veterinary patients; Overcoming obstacles to palliative care: what can we learn from our MD colleagues?; Caregiver burden and veterinary client mental health concerns; Capacities of animal patients: how cognitive ethology can (and should) inform palliative and end of life care; Palliative care challenges from the oncology service in a veterinary teaching hospital; Private practice oncology: viewpoint on end of life decision-making; Advances in pain management, palliative care applications; Advances in neurology, palliative care applications; Updates and advances in cognitive dysfunction; Perspectives on nutrition and feeding; Palliative care services at home: viewpoint from a multi-doctor practice; Objective exploration of euthanasia: what do (and don't) we know about adverse effects?; Integrating a social worker into the veterinary team for palliative care and hospice; and Conflict management. An Overview of the Equine Heart in Health and DiseaseExamination of Horses with Cardiac DiseaseEchocardiographyElectrocardiographyCardiac ArrhythmiasCongenital Cardiac Disease Acquired Valvular DiseasePericardial Disease, Myocardial Disease, and Great Vessel AbnormalitiesCV Causes of Exercise Intolerance and Poor PerformanceAssessment of the CV System During Prepurchase and Insurance Examinations Monitoring of the CV SystemResponse to Exercise and Training; and Drugs used to Treat Cardiac Disease