<p>Exotic pets are more popular than ever before, so<b> </b>make sure you are ready to care for everything from rats to songbirds with<b> Exotic Animal Medicine: A Quick Reference Guide, 2nd Edition. </b>Expanded with three all new chapters and updated content, this new edition provides the key points on differential diagnoses and diagnostics, along with background information on a wide variety of exotic pets, to veterinary practitioners who may or may not have experience treating them. Its practical quick-reference outline format makes it easy for you to see the conditions likely to be encountered within a species; develop a potential differential diagnosis list quickly; initiate an investigational plan; and view treatment regimens.</p><ul><b> <li>Covers the most commonly encountered exotic species in one text</b>, making it a succinct and practical clinician’s guide to diagnosing and treating a wide variety of exotic pets.</li> <li><b>Expert advice on diagnostic approaches, clinical techniques, anesthetic protocols, and treatment regimens</b> offers an invaluable source of useful clinically applicable material.</li> <li><b>Organization of chapters by species and clinical signs</b> enables you to access information easily and efficiently. </li> <li><b>User-friendly outline format</b> allows the guide to act as a quick reference in the clinical setting.</li></ul><ul><b> <li>NEW! All new chapters on marmosets and tamarins, hedgehogs, and sugar gliders</b> provide up-to-date coverage of exotic species you may encounter in the clinic.</li> <li><b>NEW! Thoroughly updated and expanded coverage of exotic species and the problems that may plague them</b> helps you develop a potential differential diagnosis list quickly and seek appropriate care for exotic animals, such as: ferrets, rabbits, guinea pigs, chinchillas, pet rats, hamsters and other small rodents; parrots, budgerigars and related species, canaries, finches, toucans; lizards, snakes, tortoises and turtles, frogs, salamanders; pond fish, tropical freshwater fish and tropical marine fish.</li></ul>