Anesthesia

• Sedate and calm the pt
• Pre-emptive analgesia
• Prevent movement
• Balanced Anesthesia
• Smooth recovery

IM / SQ 30mins prior

• Atropine Sulfate (Atropine)
• Glycopyrrolate (Robinul-V)

• Dry secretions
• Prevent Bradycardia

• May cause intial bradycardia after IV admin
• Arrythmias after IV admin
• Colic in horses

• Small animal : with bradycardic animals
• Larger : Don't

• Brand name: Atropine
• Prevents/Reduces : Secretions
• Treats: Bradycardia & AV blocks
• Contraindications: Don't use in tachycardic pt / Dont use in animals with constipation

• Brand Name: Robinul-V
• Advantages: 1. Can use for tachycardic pts
• 2. Use for longer procedures
• 3. Opthalmic surgery
• 4. Neurosurgery

• Phenothiazines
• Benzodiazepines
• Butyrophenones

• 1. Relaxation and Calmness
• 2. No analgesia
• 3. Manages pts fear, anxiety

Acepromazine (Promace)

• Diazepam (Valium)
• Midazolam (Versed)
• Zolezepam (in Telazol)

Droperidol (in Innovar-Vet)

• Effects: 1. Water Soluble
• 2. Mental calming, decreased moter activity
• 3. Improves anagesic effects of other anagesic drugs activity

• Side: 1. Hypotension
• 2. Hypothermia
• 3. Lowers the seizure threshold

• Effects: 1. Skeletal muscle relaxtion
• 2. Anticonvulsant

• Side: 1. aggro in cats
• 2. Ataxia

Indication: Seizures , High margin of safety, calming affects in aminals

• Dec CO
• combined with fentanyl
• Neuroleptanalgesia

• Xylazine (Rompun, Anased)
• Medetomidine (Domitor)
• Detomidine (Demosedan)
• Dexmedetomidine (Dex Domitor)

1.Produces calming, sedation, muscle relaxation

1.Bradycardia

1. Good muscle relaxation


1. vomiting in dogs and cats

1. Powerful Analgesic


1.Causes profound bradycardia

• 1. Mu - sever pain
• 2. Kappa - Moderate pain
• 3. Sigma - Chronic pain

• 1.Pure Agonist - Stimulate all
• 2.Mixed - Stimulate and block some
• 3.Pure Atagonist - Block all
• 4.Partial Agonist - Stimulate certain ones

• 1.inexpensive
• 2.good sedation
• 3.good analgesia

• 1.may cause bradycardia and resp. depression
• 2.see mania in cats

Pure Agonist

• Brand: Numophan
• 5-10x
• 1.Great sedation
• 2. good analgesia

• 1.Expensive
• 2.Bradycardia

Pure Agonist

• Brand: Sublimaze
• 50-100x

1.Mild sedation/good analgesia

1.Decrease in tidal volume

Pure Agonist

• Torbugesic
• Mixed opioid
• 2-5x
• 1.Has ceiling effect
• 2.Visceral analgesia

• 1.Not reliable sedation alone
• 2.Controlled substance

• Buprenex
• Partial Agonist
• 1.Schedule 3
• 2.long term analgesia

• 1.Has strong affinity for its receptors
• 2.Not reliable sedation when alone

• Etorphine
• 1000x
• must have Naloxone rdy

• Dilaudid
• Pure agonist
• 3x
• in cats

• Naloxone (Narcan)
• Nalbuphine (Nubaine)

• Non Steriodal antinflammatory drugs
• 1.Anti-inflam
• 2.Analgesics
• 3.Anti-pyretic

• Phenylbutazone
• Carprofen
• Deracoxib
• Tepoxalin
• Acetominopehn
• Meloxicam

• Butazolidin
• Horses
• Toxic dogs cats

• Rimadyl
• Used in dogs
• no cats

• Deramaxx
• COX-2 inhib

Tylenol

• Metacam
• COX-2

• Zubrin
• COX-2

period of time that immediately precedes the induction period in which you prepare yourself and pt for anesthetic protocol

• Assess pt
• collect data
• fast
• give PA drugs

• Allow fo admin of surgical fluids
• -prevent hypotension
• Allow for rapid easy admin of Emergency drugs

• Introduction to air
• broken cath tip
• accidental overhydration

• Murphy - eye
• Cole - no cuff

• Cats - 101.5 +/- 1F , 140-240bpm, 20-30rpm
• Dogs , 60-160bpm, 15-30rpm
• Equines 100 +/- 1F , 30-40bpm, 10-20rpm