The topics in the unit will include introduction, history, development, objective, scope, tenets and classification of veterinary surgery. Preoperative considerations, surgical risk and judgment, sterilization, asepsis-antisepsis, and their application in veterinary surgery. Hemorrhage, classification and its control. Etiology, classification, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment and management of shock. Principles of fluid therapy in surgical patients. Suture materials, their classification, suture patterns and their uses. Causes, symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment of abscess, tumors, cyst hematoma, necrosis, gangrene, burn and frost bite. Wound classification, symptoms, diagnosis, treatments, and complications of wound and wound healing. Classification, etiology, clinical signs, diagnosis and surgical treatments of hernia. History, development, terminologies and classification of anesthesia. General consideration, stages and signs of general anesthesia. Preanaesthetic considerations, preanaesthetic drugs and classification. Local anesthesia, anesthetic agents, mode of action, topical, infiltration and regional anesthetic procedures in large and small animals. General anesthesia procedures, injectable and inhalation anesthetic agents. Maintenance and monitoring of general anesthesia. Anesthetic emergencies and their management. Neuroleptanalgesia, electroanaesthesia, acupuncture, hypothermia, muscle relaxants. Pain management. General principles of chemical restraint of wild/zoo, & lab animals and birds.
- Teacher: Abubakar Danmaigoro