N. Pulmonary edema and pleural diseases: types of edema, diagnostic techniques (thoracocentesis, radiography, chest tube insertion), pyothorax, pneumothorax, bites and other penetrating wounds, diaphragmatic hernia, rib fractures and flail chest, subcutaneous emphysema.
O. General goals of respiratory therapeutics: control of secretions, specific methods (culture, drugs), non-specific methods (aerosol therapy, physiotherapy, expectorants); maintenance of alveolar ventilation, normalization of reflexes (antitussives, bronchodilators).
7. Diseases of nervous system - small animal (AP).
A. Differential diagnoses: recognizing the problem, interpreting the signalment, history and physical examn, neurological examination, localization of the lesion, efficiency of the diagnosis,perspectives on disease, differential diagnoses of specific presenting signs, principles of prognosis and treatment of neurologic diseases.
B. Special diagnostic tests: cerebrospinal fluids, myelography, electroencephalography, electromyography and electroneurography, cerebral arteriography, cerebral venography, ventriculography, radioisotope scintigraphy, computerized axial tomography, magnetic resonance imaging, averaged evoked sensory potentials, lumbosacral venography.
C. Brain, special senses and generalized neurologic diseases: vision, auditory, vestibular, motion sickness, trauma, infectious and parasitic, metabolic disorders, inherited disorders, developmental defects, toxicities, vascular, neoplasia, seizures, narcolepsy - sleep disorders, anoxia, organic behavioral diseases.
D. Spinal diseases: trauma, spontaneous intervertebral disk disease, infectious and parasitic, vascular, metabolic inherited diseases, developmental abnormalities and structural inherited diseases, acquired spinal deformaties, neoplasia.
E. Peripheral nervous system and neuromuscular diseases: trauma, neoplasia, toxic, immune, hormonal and idiopathic diseases, polyneuropathies, aortic emboli, myasthenia gravis, botulism, tick paralysis, scotty cramps, polymyopathies.
10. Diseases of endocrine system (TB).
A. Adrenal gland - review of physiology.
B. Cushings disease - diagnosis and treatment.
C. Addisons disease - diagnosis and treatment.
11. Diseases of urinary system - small animal (DRK)
A. Renal anatomy and physiology.
B. Examination of the urologic patient - history, physical
exam, laboratory tests, renal function tests.
C. Renal disease, renal failure, azotemia, and uremia - terms
defined.
D. Prerenal azotemia vs. postrenal azotemia vs. primary
renal azotemia - definition and diagnostic dilemma;
glomerular tubular imbalance.
E. Reversible vs. irreversible, acute vs. chronic and polyuric
vs. oligouric renal failure.
F. Pathophysiology of the uremic syndrome.
G. Therapy for uremic crisis in poluremic chronic renal
failure.
H. Treatment of acute renal failure.
I. Conservative therapy in chronic renal failure.
J. Current concepts in the diagnosis and management of
urinary tract infections.
K. Canine urolithiasis.
L. Feline lower urinary tract disease (formerly called
feline urologic syndrome (FUS)).
14. Diseases of blood-forming organs - small animal.
