Includes bibliographical references (p. 375-380) and index.
Contents:
Historical overview and development / Rebecca Gimenez -- Purpose of technical large animal emergency rescue / Rebecca Gimenez -- Incident prevention and evacuation planning / Rebecca Gimenez -- Understanding large animal behavior in TLAER incidents / Rebecca Gimenez -- Technical large animal emergency rescue scene management / Rebecca Gimenez -- Understanding large animal restraint in technical large animal rescue incidents / Rebecca Gimenez -- Water and unstable ground rescues / Rebecca Gimenez -- Loose large animals / Rebecca Gimenez -- Trailer incidents / Tomas Gimenez and Rebecca Gimenez -- Barn and wild fires / Jeff Galloway and Rebecca Gimenez -- Ambulance and recumbent animal transport / Rebecca Gimenez -- Communications in veterinary field operations / Kathleen Becker and Tori Miller -- Field euthanasia / Rebecca Gimenez -- Rope rigging and mechanical advantage / Tomas Gimenez -- Manipulating the animal victim: basic rescue techniques / Rebecca Gimenez -- Manipulating the object: vertical lift techniques / Rebecca Gimenez -- Large animal field emergency medicine / Janice Baker -- Helicopter operations / Rebecca Gimenez -- Decontamination of large animals / Lisa Murphy, Dawn Slessman, and Bob Mauck -- Special veterinary problems of animals requiring technical rescue / Janice Baker -- Livestock transport emergency response / Jennifer Woods -- Learning from actual incident scenarios / Tomas Gimenez and Rebecca Gimenez.
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