Dr. Steagall gave cats undergoing spay surgery an injection of the drug bupivacaine directly into their abdomen as their spay surgeries were completed but before they were
awakened from general anesthesia.
As soon as a mother awakes
fully from general anesthesia, it is safe to nurse her baby or pump her milk because general anesthetic medications are rapidly metabolized.
«This work adds to the body of evidence pertaining to intraoperative bacterial transmission because it identifies targets for improved frequency and quality of environmental cleaning as well as important periods for hand hygiene compliance, namely induction and
emergence from general anesthesia,» state the authors.
A study in Japan found that patients who listened to nature sounds during surgery
emerged from general anesthesia more smoothly than a control group who heard the procedure; the latter experienced significantly higher heart rate and blood pressure while returning to consciousness.
Although hospitalized care is not always required, depending on the type of biopsy and your pet's
recovery from general anesthesia, they may need to remain with us for up to 48 hours after the procedure.
A veterinary technician, along with the doctor, monitors each patient from the time of anesthetic induction until they are recovered and awake.Strict monitoring that follows careful administration of the most modern anesthetic agents help us to avoid any complications that can
arise from general anesthesia.
Better understanding of the coma - like state of general anesthesia could also shed light on patients who are in a more permanent vegetative state, who upon waking go through very similar stages as those coming up
from general anesthesia — albeit much more slowly.
Post-surgical care will be required; some dogs will need to remain hospitalized until they have recovered
from the general anesthesia.