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Preface

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As instructors in veterinary schools, all of the authors have faced the same dilemma – the student who cannot
find the correct resource to answer a particular question. While we all acknowledge the importance and value
of looking something up, sometimes in multiple resources, this book is an attempt to create a repository of
information in one resource.
The intended audience, therefore, is the veterinary student or the veterinary practitioner who would like a
fairly succinct approach to understanding the monitoring equipment that they are using on their patients.
This book does not attempt to provide comprehensive details of treatment and diagnosis of disease but rather
how to use the available monitoring equipment to gather information about a case.
In our attempt to provide information about a monitor, we have also attempted to provide the relevant
physiology upon which the monitor is based (or which is needed to understand the output from the monitor).
And most importantly of all, since no monitor is perfect and all monitors have inherent weaknesses, this book
attempts to point out how to properly use each monitor to avoid some of these weaknesses as well as provide
some guidelines to rational interpretation of the results that are acquired. We hope that we have succeeded
in our goals.
Elizabeth J. Thomovsky,
15 January 2020.

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