Many vets encourage you to bring your cat in annually for teeth cleaning,
using a general anesthetic.
Question and answer topic on the risks of
using general anesthetic on Chow Chows for surgeries.
In general, after a patient has experienced 24 hours in a seizure and there have been multiple failed attempts to stop it with drugs, physicians will
use general anesthetics to put a patient in a coma to protect the muscles, kidneys and brain from damage — common side effects of prolonged seizure episodes.
This is a more serious (and expensive) surgery than the usual castration, as the vet will have to
use a general anesthetic and exploratory surgery to find the undescended testicle and remove it.
Not exact matches
It is the world's first randomized control trial for breast cancer surgery that compares the
use of ultrasound - guided paravertebral blocks — a local
anesthetic freezing that blocks breast nerves — to
general anesthetic.
For the pets that will not cooperate for daily care and maintenance, we offer
general anesthetic and full dental prophylactic treatment and extractions (when needed)
using the best
anesthetic monitoring tools available and dedicated technicians.
We want our patients to be calm so that the
use of
general anesthetic agents can be minimized.
In most cases, the veterinarian will
use a combination of medications that include a sedative, several pain relievers and a
general anesthetic.
Safe
use of an
anesthetic or sedative in a dog or cat requires evaluation of the
general health and size of the patient to determine the appropriate drug and dose, and continual monitoring of the patient.
It will allow a lower amount of the
general anesthesia to be
used resulting in a safer
anesthetic procedure for your pet.
A
general anesthetic is
used to permit doing a thorough job.
General anesthesia is sometimes
used before local
anesthetics are injected into the muscles around the eye.
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.
The best way to determine this is the
use of x-rays, done while the pet is under a
general anesthetic.
Our dental procedures are also performed
using isoflurane as the
general inhalation
anesthetic.
This allows the veterinarian to
use less
general anesthetic thereby improving the safety of the
anesthetic procedure and allowing your pet to recover more quickly and with less pain.
We
use both
general and local
anesthetics and employ injectable analgesics (pain medications) for our in - patients as well as oral pain medications to go home.
A
general anesthetic is administered, the testicles are removed (oriectomy), and several stitches are
used to close it up.