title: Nursing care of lizards.
abstract: This article should introduce to the veterinary staff some of the basic information that is required to provide high-quality medicine to lizards. This article begins with a brief introduction to lizards and their husbandry, including caging, lighting, humidity, and diet.Making appointments for lizards, taking a history, manual restraint,venipuncture, fecal sampling, catheterization, medications,administering fluids, giving injections, radiology, and anesthesia are all detailed for veterinary technicians and veterinary animal care staff. Each section details differences between lizards and typical mammalian patients while trying to emphasize the common approach to both groups of animals.
authors.affiliation: Exotic Animal, Wildlife & Zoological Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA. mpmcbride7@yahoo.com
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: McBride
authors.forename: Stephen J
authors.initials: SJ
authors.lastname: Hernandez-Divers
mesh_terms: D000822:Animal Husbandry; D017750:Animal Technicians; D000818:Animals; D008116:Lizards; D014730:Veterinary Medicine