Short guide of cardio-vascular medication in animals

The medication of heart and blood in animals rise many problems in the current veterinary practice, on the one hand because of lack or very few of functional investigation means and of absence of specific training in this field and on the other hand because of lack of knowledge in what means fine medication in heart and blood disease in animal, many of the drugs being from the human medicine. In this respect we consider that this topic can be a new study direction in the curricula of veterinary universities. In the synthesis is concisely presented, on the vet's comprehension the main aspects referring to: Physiologic bases of heart therapy, the correlation between receptors, secondary messengers and drugs action, Cardiac failure, Cardiovascular medication, Contractibility modifiers (cardiotonic medication), Rhythm modifiers, Vasodilators etc.