First Aid for Horse and Rider: Emergency Care For The Stable And Trail [Paperback]

This is the long-awaited how-to handbook for treating riding injuries in the field for both rider and horse, with step-by-step numbered instructions for the most common injuries and what to do until help arrives. Injuries range from insect and animal bites, allergies, and broken bones to head injuries, hypothermia, and hoof wounds. This is an authoritative pocket reference that combines advice from a reputable veterinarian and a medical doctor, a perfect package for first aid kits.Nancy S. Loving, DVM, owns Loving Equine Clinic in Boulder, Colorado. She is the author of numerous books, and articles including All Horse Systems Go: The Horse Owners Full-Color Veterinary Care and Conditioning Resource for Modern Performance, Sport and Pleasure Horses. Gilbert M. Preston, MD, is the author of the Falcon book Wilderness First Aid. He works in Butte, Montana.Reach for this book when first-aid action is required for horses and their riders. With simple language and a quick-access format, this book provides advice from both a DVM and an MD about handling all the common injuries and conditions that can arise when people and horses come together. It opens with an essential chapter on what to do when both horses and riders are injured. For horses, it covers animal/insect bites, wounds and bleeding, bone injuries, eye conditions, heat stress, allergic reactions, hoof problems, acute lameness, and more. For riders, it covers CPR, head injuries, lightning injuries, bone and joint injuries, and many other conditions. First Aid for Horse and Rider is essential for every tack room and cantle-bag.