This edition offers authoritative information on all aspects of small animal surgery. Coverage includes basic procedures such as spays, castrations, and declaws, as well as more advanced surgeries that might be referred to specialists such as craniotomy,ventral slots, and lung lobectomy.

General surgical principles -- Principles of surgical asepsis -- Sterilization and disinfection -- Surgical facilities, equipment, and personnel -- Care and maintenance of the surgical environment -- Preoperative and intraoperative care of the surgical patient -- Preparation of the operative site -- Preparation of the surgical team -- Surgical instrumentation -- Biomaterials, suturing, and hemostasis -- Surgical infections and antibiotic selection -- Postoperative care of the surgical patient -- Fundamentals of physical rehabilitation -- Perioperative multimodal analgesic therapy -- Principles of minimally invasive surgery -- Soft tissue surgery -- Surgery of the integumentary system -- Surgery of the eye -- Surgery of the ear -- Surgery of the abdominal cavity -- Surgery of the digestive system -- Surgery of the liver -- Surgery of the extrahepatic biliary system -- Surgery of the endocrine system -- Surgery of the hemolymphatic system -- Surgery of the kidney and ureter -- Surgery of the bladder and urethra -- Surgery of the reproductive and genital systems -- Surgery of the cardiovascular system -- Surgery of the upper respiratory system -- Surgery of the lower respiratory system: lungs and thoracic wall -- Surgery of the lower respiratory system: pleural cavity and diaphragm -- Orthopedics -- Fundamentals of orthopedic surgery and fracture management -- Management of specific fractures -- Diseases of the joints -- Management of muscle and tendon injury or disease -- Other diseases of bones and joints -- Neurosurgery -- Fundamentals of neurosurgery -- Surgery of the brain -- Surgery of the cervical spine -- Surgery of the thoracolumbar spine -- Surgery of the lumbosacral spine -- Nonsurgical diseases of the spine.