Pets undergoing dental surgery receive the safest
isoflurane gas anesthesia.
Call for a Veterinary Assistant to administer
isoflurane gas, if the cat is not fully anesthetized.
We induce pets with propofol and we maintain anesthesia with either sevoflurane or
isoflurane gas.
We use balanced anesthesia — the intelligent combination of sedation, analgesia (pain control), induction (usually by IV injection), maintenance anaesthesia (usually with
isoflurane gas), and patient monitoring (pulse oximeter, blood pressure monitor).
We have moved into an age where just about every veterinarian has
isoflurane gas (some even use sevoflurane) and the dreaded barbiturate induction (Surital, BioTal, Pentothal) has been virtually replaced by ketamine / valium or alternate injectables.
Includes: routine spay or neuter in our fully equipped surgical suite, at or about six months of age; pre-surgical physical exam; pre-anesthetic blood screening; i.v. catheter and fluids;
Isoflurane gas anesthesia with intraoperative monitoring of all vital signs by our licensed nurses, using state of the art equipment; postoperative antibiotics and pain preventives.
The most widely used seems to be acepromazine / atropine premed followed by ketamine / Valium induction and
isoflurane gas, same as in the general dog population.
We tailor our anesthesia protocol to each patient and offer total intravenous (triple drip) or
isoflurane gas anesthesia.
If periodontal disease is caught early, then many times the problem can be treated with medications and other methods, such as laser therapy and antibiotic gel placement into the deep pockets, while the pet is under
isoflurane gas anesthesia.
Capron cleaned and polished «Yari's» teeth while the dog was under
isoflurane gas anesthesia; Capron took intra oral digital X-rays, (checking the remaining 3 stainless steel metal crowns and then replacing the damaged restoration.
Rats were anaesthetized with
isoflurane gas in an induction chamber first and then via nose cone through the entire procedure.
Not exact matches
Researchers, including one from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory at CalTech, a chemist from the University of Copenhagen and an anesthesiologist from the University of Michigan Medical School, studied three anesthetic
gases:
isoflurane, desflurane and sevoflurane.
The other two
gases have significantly less impact:
isoflurane is only a third as powerful a greenhouse
gas as is desflurane and sevoflurance has only an eighth of desflurane's effect.
Once surgery was completed, the rats were exposed to a
gas mixture of approximately 2 % isoflurane and air, and blood gas measurements were made with a Ciba - Corning 860 Blood Gas Analyzer (Siemens, Norwood, M
gas mixture of approximately 2 %
isoflurane and air, and blood
gas measurements were made with a Ciba - Corning 860 Blood Gas Analyzer (Siemens, Norwood, M
gas measurements were made with a Ciba - Corning 860 Blood
Gas Analyzer (Siemens, Norwood, M
Gas Analyzer (Siemens, Norwood, MA).
Although anesthesia can never be risk free, the use of modern
gas anesthetics such as sevoflurane and
isoflurane, sophisticated monitoring equipment, as well as intravenous catheters and IV fluids have greatly improved the safety of general anesthesia.
At Community Veterinary Hospital, our primary inhalant anesthetic is
isoflurane, which is the safest
gas anesthetic that we can use.
IG's can be successfully and safely anesthetized with
gas anesthetics, particularly
isoflurane.
Due to the nature of prairie dogs, most testing is done under
gas (usually
isoflurane) anesthesia.
We use the safest
gas anesthesias available to veterinary medicine
Isoflurane and Sevoflurane.
Anesthesia should always be maintained with an inhalant
gas such as Sevoflurane or
Isoflurane, as additional doses of induction agents will unnecessarily prolong recovery.
While one dog was masked with an
isoflurane / O2
gas mixture, the remaining dogs were induced by intravenous injection of propofol (4 — 6 mg / kg to effect).