Books - What is in your practice library?

Re: Books - What is in your practice library?

Hanna Bennett — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 12:24:46 GMT

Would recommend most of the BSAVA manuals too - Ettinger is dry and not really practical, not to mention American so not always relevant. The BSAVA manuals, with the exception of the Nephrology one, are fabulous, practical and well written. Their Emergency and Critical Care one has saved me on a few occasions!

Re: Books - What is in your practice library?

Ian Mostyn — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 16:45:58 GMT

It works, it is just slower and less useful than searching a pdf that also has an index file. That is almost instantaneous and you get a nice list. Firefox has a similar CTRL-F which is very quick. Maybe just me getting impatient. Just a minor gripe but something BSAVA should have included. It wouldn't have taken them more than a few minutes to do.

Ian

Re: Books - What is in your practice library?

Jenny Smith — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 16:40:38 GMT

In most pdf files you can hit "ctrl + F" then type in your search terms - it works for most papers I download, so should be the same in the formulary. Works even if you just have reader.

Hope that helps

Jenny

Re: Books - What is in your practice library?

Ian Mostyn — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 15:19:43 GMT

Thanks for those comments. I went for the three books above in the end. I have the BSAVA formulary on my laptop as a pdf and it is a bit of a faff as the search isn't as good as it should be. It needs a pdx index file to be a better search but that needs acrobat professional to do. Still nice to have a paper copy as well though!!

Ian

Re: Books - What is in your practice library?

Jenny Smith — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 14:46:45 GMT

I think the latest formulary is also available as a pdf version - meaning it can be loaded onto computers within the practice for quick and easy access, without having to find the book first!!

Jenny

Re: Books - What is in your practice library?

Ian Mostyn — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 11:04:20 GMT

A good idea about the emergencies book. Thanks.

Re: Books - What is in your practice library?

Rudolph — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 09:21:08 GMT

I think what you've listed covers most day-to-day things! Good choices :) I also like Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care Procedures by Hackett and Mazzaferro. Lots of pictures and quick reference for your more urgent cases. It's not expensive and worth a look.