Academy of

Veterinary Technician Anesthetists

Member's Only

Can I apply to the Academy?

Proudly sponsored by:



AVTA Recommended Reading List


Veterinary Anesthesia Textbooks


Manual of Small Animal Anesthesia
, 2 Ed, Paddleford, WB Saunders, Philadelphia, 1999


Small Animal Anesthesia &Analgesia
, 2nd Ed., McKelvey and Hollingshead, Mosby, St. Louis, 2000

 

Veterinary Anesthesia and Analgesia 3rd edition Diane McKelvey, K Wayne Hollingshead, Mosby, St Louis 2003

 

Anaesthesia for Veterinary Nurses: Elizabeth Welsh:Blackwell Publishing (Blackwell Science LTD): UK 2009

 

Essentials of Small Animal Anesthesia &Analgesia, Thurmon, Tranquilli & Benson, Eds., Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, Philadelphia, 1999

 

Lumb and Jones' Veterinary Anesthesia 4th Edition, Thurmon, Tranquilli, and Kurt Grimm; Williams,Wilkins, and Lippincott, Baltimore, 2007


Veterinary Anesthesia and Pain Management Secrets, Stephen A. Greene,2002, Hanley and Belfus

 

Handbook of Veterinary Anesthesia, 3rd Ed, Muir et al, Mosby, St. Louis, 2000

 

Veterinary Anaesthesia, 10th Ed., Hall, Clark and Trim, WB Saunders, London, 2001

 

Manual of Small Animal Anaesthesia, British Small Animal Veterinary Association, Seymour and Gleed, Shurdington,Cheltenham, UK, 1999

 

Anesthesia for Veterinary Technicians, Susan Bryant (editor), Wiley-Blackwell, 2010

 

 

Anesthesia Equipment

 

Understanding Anesthesia Equipment, Dorsch & Dorsch, 5th Edition, Williams, Williams, and Lippincott, Philadelphia, 2007


Ward's Anaesthetic Equipment, edited by Andrew J Davey and Ali Diba, Fifth Edition, 2005,  Elsevier, Saunders. (ISBN 1 4160 2558 8).

 

Pharmacology

 

Veterinary Drug Handbook, 6th Edition, Plumb, DC, Iowa State Press, Ames, 2008

 

Veterinary Pharmacology and Therapeutics, HR Adams, Ed., 8th Ed., Iowa State University, Ames, 2001

 

The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics, Goodman and Gillman, McGraw-Hill, NY, 2001

 

 

Current Topics in Anesthesia

 

Veterinary Clinics of North America, Small Animal Practice; Management of Pain, Mathews, KA,Ed., WB Saunders, Philadelphia, July, 2000

 

The Veterinary Clinics of North America, Small Animal Practice; Emergency Surgical Procedures, ed. Holt, Sauners, May 2000

 

The Veterinary Clinics of North America, Small Animal Practice; Clinical Anesthesia New Thoughts in Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation, N. Mathews, Saunders, May 1999

 

 

Surgery Texts

 

Small Animal Surgery, 2nd ed., Fossum, Mosby, St Louis, 2002

 

 

Internal Medicine Texts

 

Small Animal Veterinary Internal Medicine, 2nd. Ed., Nelson and Couto, Mosby, St. Louis, 1998

 

Kirk's Current Veterinary Therapy, XI, Kirk and Bonagura

 

 

Cardiology Texts

 

Small Animal Cardiovascular Medicine, Kittleson and Kienle, Mosby, St. Louis, 1998

 

Essentials of Feline and Canine Electrocardiography: Interpretations and Treatment, Tilley, Lawrence, 3rd ed., Philadelphia, Lea and Febiger, 1992

 

 

Emergency and Critical Care

 

Manual of Canine and Feline Emergency and Critical Care, ed. Lesley King and Richard Hammond, British Small Animal Veterinary Association, 1991

 

Manual of Small Animal and Critical Care Medicine, Macintire, Drobatz, Haskins and Saxon, Lippincott Williams & Wilkin Baltimore & Philadelphia, 2003 

 

Small Animal Emergency and Critical Care A Manual for Veterinary Technicians. Ed. Andrea Battaglia, WB Saunders, 2001 

 

 

Specifically Large Animal References

 

Principles and Practice of Veterinary Anesthesia, edited by Charles E. Short, 1987, Williams & Wilkins, Baltimore

 

Handbook of Equine Anaesthesia, PM Taylor and KW Clark, WB Saunders, London, 1999

 

Large Animal Anesthesia, Principles and Techniques, 2nd Ed., Reibold, Geiser, and Goble, Iowa State University, Ames, 1995

 

The Veterinary Clinics of North America, Food Animal Practice, "Anesthesia Update," Swanson, CR, Ed., WB Saunders, Philadelpia, 1996

 

The Veterinary Clinics of North America/Equine Practice, Principles and Techniques of Equine Anesthesia, Riebold, TW, Ed., WB Saunders, Philadelphia, December 1990 

 

The Veterinary Clinics of North America/Equine Practice, Pain Management and Anesthesia, Mama, Hendrickson, Sauners, Philadelphia, PA, April 2002

 

Equine Anesthesia, Muir and Hubbell, Mosby, St. Louis, 1991

 

Manual of Equine Emergencies Treatment and Procedures 2nd Edition, James A. Orsini, Thomas J. Divers, Saunders, Philadelphia 2003 pg 164