CLINICAL FOUNDATIONS of SMALL ANIMAL INTERNAL MEDICINE: Diagnostic Reasoning, Disease Mechanisms, and Evidence-Informed Management Common Disorders in Dogs Cats

Move beyond memorizing disease lists and learn to think through small-animal medical cases with a structured, clinically useful approach. Clinical Foundations of Small Animal Internal Medicine is a veterinary clinical textbook designed to connect presenting signs, pathophysiology, diagnostic testing, treatment planning, monitoring, and communication across common disorders in dogs and cats. It is especially suited to veterinary students, interns, residents, and practitioners who want a system-based reference that emphasizes how clinical decisions are made not simply what facts to remember. Across 20 chapters, the book moves from clinical reasoning and diagnostic interpretation into fluid and electrolyte disorders, gastroenterology, hepatobiliary and pancreatic disease, respiratory and cardiovascular medicine, renal disease, endocrinology, hematology, immune-mediated disease, infectious disease, neurology, oncology, dermatology, nutrition, toxicology, geriatric care, emergencies, and long-term management.- Build concise problem representations and prioritized differential lists from signalment, history, examination findings, and patient stability.- Interpret CBC, chemistry, urinalysis, imaging, cytology, pathology, and other diagnostic data in clinical context.- Connect disease mechanisms with treatment goals, contraindication checks, reassessment, and patient-specific monitoring.- Work through original clinical reasoning cases that require problem lists, targeted tests, interpretation, and contingency planning.- Review decision-focused tables and figures that reinforce diagnostic pathways, monitoring frameworks, and system relationships.- Account for meaningful canine and feline differences rather than treating both species as interchangeable.- Strengthen continuity of care through clearer documentation, caregiver communication, referral thresholds, and long-term planning.Use it as a structured study companion, a case-reasoning reference, or a practical bridge between classroom knowledge and everyday small-animal internal medicine.