"Your complete guide to certification success! Master critical concepts to succeed on your certification exam with the ideal review tool that reflects the most recent changes to the Veterinary Technician National Exam (VTNE). Additional features include the use and care of endoscopic equipment added to the "Ultrasound and Other Imaging" chapter. Updated chapter discussions expanded throughout the text provide additional information in areas such as emergency procedures, urinalysis and hematology, sanitation, sterilization, and disinfection, small and large animal nutrition and feeding, and exotic animal medicine."--taken from back cover.

Previous edition: 2015.

Pt. I: Anatomy and veterinary diagnostics. Animal anatomy and physiology -- Urinalysis and hematology -- Parasitology -- Clinical chemistry -- Cytology -- Diagnostic microbiology and mycology -- Radiography -- Alternative imaging technology -- pt. II: Patient management. Immunology and virology -- Sanitation, sterilization, and disinfection -- Companion animal behavior -- Restraint and handling -- Small animal nutrition -- Large animal nutrition and feeding -- Genetics, theriogenology, and neonatal care -- Laboratory animal medicine -- Exotic animal medicine -- Zoonoses -- pt. III: Veterinary therapeutics. Pharmacology -- Pharmaceutical calculations -- Anesthesia -- Pain management -- Surgical principles -- Small animal nursing -- Equine nursing and surgery -- Ruminant, South American camelid, and swine nursing, surgery, and anesthesia -- Emergency medicine -- Veterinary dentistry -- pt. IV: Professional management. Personal, practice, and professional management skills and ethics.