Resources

Textbooks

1. Slatter D:
   Textbook of Small Animal Surgery. Saunders, 3rd Edition, 2003
   
   
2. Fossum TW:
   Small Animal Surgery. Mosby, 3rd  Edition, 2007
   
   
3. Piermattei DL:
   An Atlas of Surgical Approaches to the Bones and Joints of the Dog and Cat. Saunders, 3rd Edition, 1993
   
   
4. Bojrab MJ:
   Disease Mechanisms in Small Animal Surgery. Lea and Febiger, 2nd Edition, 1993
   
   
5. Bojrab MJ:
   Current Techniques in Small Animal Surgery. Williams and Wilkins, 4th Edition, 1997
   
   
6. Swaim SF
   Small Animal Wound Management. 2nd Edition, 1997
   
   
7. Fowler D. & J.M. Williams.
   Manual of Canine and Feline Wound Management and Reconstruction. B.S.A.V.A., Cheltenham. 1999.


8. Hendrickson DA (Ed).
   Techniques in Large Animal Surgery. Blackwell Publishing, 3rd Edition, 2007.

Journals

• Veterinary Surgery - this journal is useful to have if you want cutting edge information on surgery.
• Journal of Small Animal Practice
• Veterinary Comparative Orthopaedics and Traumatology
• Veterinary Clinics of North America (Small Animals)
• Compendium of Continuing Education - this journal is useful to have if you want general information on surgery.
• Journal of the American Animal Hospital Association

CD-Rom

• Suture Tutor
• This program demonstrates suture techniques and patterns with a number of diagrams, video segments and models.

The discs are available from the Gilruth library.

Links to websites

http://www.unimelb.edu.au/research/ethics/animal/policy.htm
This website provides a wide range of links to the relevant Acts, Codes of Practice and Guidelines relating to the use of animals in research and teaching.
The use of non-human vertebrate animals for research and teaching in Victoria is regulated by the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act 1986 (the Act) and the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Regulations 1997. Under the Act, the University of Melbourne must be licensed by the Department of Primary Industries to carry out scientific procedures using animals.
Our use of animals must also comply with the Australian Code of Practice for the Care and Use of Animals for Scientific Purposes, and the procedures approved by the Animal Experimentation Ethics Committee.
See the Introduction to the Exercise section for more details.

http://www.cal.nbc.upenn.edu/surgery/
This website from the University of Pennsylvannia, School of Vet. Medicine provides a wide variety of information  on the  principles of surgery, surgical instruments and suturing techniques. Some principles of anaesthesia including the basic breathing systems are also available. The information is provided in a number of slide shows, case reports and short video segments.
Navigate through the side menu. The principles of surgery and anaesthesia are under the heading “General Medical/Surgeical”. More applied, but interesting topics such as cardiac surgery, radiology and orthopaedics can be found in the “Small/Companion Animals” section.

http://www.cvm.msu.edu/courses/VM545/surgery/
Surgery Lab Techniques (do need Windows media player to view video clips)

http://www.jnjgateway.com/public/USENG/5256ETHICON_Encyclopedia_of_Knot.pdf
This website is maintained by the manufacturers of the Ethicon range of sutures, but provides some valuable information on sutures.

Glossary of Terms

Sepsis: The presence of pathogens, or their toxic products in the tissues of a patient.

Asepsis: The absence of pathogenic microorganisms in living tissues.

Antisepsis: Prevention of sepsis by the destruction or inhibition of microorganisms using an agent that may be safely applied to living tissues.

Antiseptic: A chemical agent that either kills pathogenic microorganisms, or inhibits their growth. This term is reserved for agents which may be applied to the body.

Disinfectant: A germicidal chemical substance that kills microorganisms on inanimate objects such as surgical instruments.

Disinfection: Removal of microorganisms, but not necessarily their spores.

Sterilisation: Complete elimination of microbial viability, including vegetative forms of bacteria and spores by physical or chemical means.

Aseptic technique:  a set of techniques and practices designed to prevent or minimise microbiological contamination of the surgery wound.