PRACTICAL GUIDE : 1ST AID FOR MY DOG

The procedures presented in this book are not intended to replace the advice of a veterinarian. But they will help you to best protect your companion's life and health while waiting to transport him or her to the health professional. 

The purpose of this book is to allow any owner : 

• to recognize signs of distress, 
• to do the best he/she can to preserve the dog's life, 
• to avoid, if possible, any aggravation while waiting for the veterinarian's advice over the phone and the provision of professional medical care to your pet. 

In a pocket format and in the form of an alphabet, this guide is meant to be practical and accessible. It will slip easily into your backpack during walks or in your first aid kit. 

An essential guide that any caring pet-owner should consult regularly ! 

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SUMMARY :

Acknowledgements
Foreword

PART ONE :
THE EMERGENCY CHAIN
SAFETY
- The HEDIGER rule
- Approaching the animal
- Observe its behaviour
- The aggressive animal
- Putting on a makeshift muzzle
- Restraining the dog : sitting, standing, lying down
- Moving the dog
- Avoiding and caring for dog bites
MAKING AN EMERGENCY CALL TO THE VETERINARIAN
- The emergency call

PART TWO : FIRST AID
IDENTIFYING LIFE-THREATENING EMERGENCIES
- Is the dog bleeding profusely ? Is the dog choking ? Is the dog responding ?
- Clearing the airways
- Is the dog breathing ?
- Is there a heartbeat ?
- First aid actions to be performed in response to life-threatening emergencies
- Additional symptoms that can be reported to the veterinarian
- Breathing frequencies over 1 minute
- Heart rates over 1 minute
- Overview: searching for signs of life-threatening distress
- Overview: searching for lesions
- Morphology/anatomy
- Blood volume
- Comparing the age of a dog with human age
- Characteristic elements of dog emergencies
CHOKING
- Looking inside the mouth/throat
- Slapping the back
- Compressing the abdomen
- Slaps and compressions
BLEEDING
- Applying local compression
- Applying a tourniquet
- Externalized bleeding
- Protection of the responder
LOSS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
- Recovery position
- Sternal recovery position
CARDIAC ARREST
- Cardiopulmonary resuscitation
- Chest compression
- Compression / release of the thorax
- Position of the responder
- Insufflations : mouth to nose

PART THREE : SUMMARY AND INDEX
ALPHABETICAL LIST OF INJURIES
- Bandages
- Chemical burns
- Claw torn off
- Cold shock - hydrocution
- Convulsive seizure
- Deformed area - contusions
- Diarrhea
- Drowning
- Electric shock
- Envenomation
- Evisceration
- Eye damage
- Fishhook
- Frostbite
- Giving birth
- Gunshot wound
- Heat stroke
- Hypothermia
- Intoxications
- Limb fractures
- Pawpads
- Severe burn
- Severe injuries
- Simple burn
- Simple wound
- Skull - trauma, concussion
- Smoke - Fire
- Spikelets - foxtail grass
- Spine, pelvis injury
- State of shock
- Stomach dilation / Torsion
- Ticks
- Urine - blood
- Vaccines
- Vomiting
- Wounds caused by a foreign body

PART FOUR :
ADMINISTRATION OF MEDICATION
EMERGENCY FIRST-AID KITS
IN CASE OF EMERGENCY
IN THE SAME COLLECTION
WARNING
LEGAL INFORMATION