title: Approach to the emergency equine patient.
abstract: Often in emergency situations minimal data are collected, decisions are made, manipulations are performed, and therapeutics are administered without the collection of complete data sets that would indicate a detailed history and laboratory analysis. The incomplete clinical analysis may lead to occasional mistakes, but most often expediency is necessary and admirable. This article presents a clinical approach to emergency patients that requires minimal data collection in the face of the need for timely decision development. Medicolegal considerations are addressed briefly.
authors.affiliation: Food and Drug Administration, Center for Veterinary Medicine, Rockville, Maryland.
authors.forename: J J
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Bertone
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D004630:Emergencies / Q000662:veterinary*; D006734:Horse Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006736:Horses; D014730:Veterinary Medicine / Q000379:methods*