Download or read book Rule outs in small animal medicine written by Prof. Dr. Katrin Hartmann and published by Schlütersche. This book was released on 2019-11-28 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to achieve a reliable diagnosis – even in complex clinical cases. For such challenges, veterinary surgeons must know about all the possible pathophysiological causes of a particular clinical problem, be able to evaluate them in individual cases and exclude anything which is not relevant using diagnostic pathways. The ‘rules out’ describe this process of exclusion for all aspects of internal medicine in the cat and dog, and ultimately lead to a reliable and secure diagnosis. They form, therefore, an important basis for everyday clinical work and provide a practical guideline for the systematic problem-oriented processing of patients. For students, these ‘rules out’ are a prerequisite for understanding veterinary internal medicine. For experienced clinicians, they are a helpful diagnostic guide especially when dealing with complex cases and so can help in solving particularly ‘knotty’ problems.