Where can I learn some veterinary anesthesia?

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Toothpickwars

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CA3 in the NE, would love to spend a few weeks at a zoo or other animal hospital and see how anesthesia varies among species. Any thoughts?

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My previous job had a veterinary anesthesiology residency in the veterinary school. I had the opportunity to help out on a sick great ape. Check w your vet school
 
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If you are attached to a university, often there is some animal research. That’s one avenue. A lot of the medications are the same, just with generic knock off brand names. Propoflo, for example, and Dexdomidor or something like that. A lot like buying soft drinks from K mart in the 90s, Dr. Smooth, Whirl Up, etc. the exception that I’ve seen being alphaxalone, which is a steroid medication which seems to bind to GABAergic channels in cats, maybe dogs too, or rabbits, but seems to be most often used in small animals. The volatile I’ve seen used was exclusively isoflurane. They used concentrations I usually think of as being around MAC BAR in humans. I never saw any neuromuscular blocker.
 
. Propoflo, for example, and Dexdomidor or something like that.
Yeah, those sound about right. I believe I saw them one aisle over from the horse dewormer which I was definitely buying because I definitely have a friend whose horse is definitely in need of deworming.
 
Yeah, those sound about right. I believe I saw them one aisle over from the horse dewormer which I was definitely buying because I definitely have a friend whose horse is definitely in need of deworming.
Sure. Probably could pick up some fish tank cleaner the next aisle over. A lot of times, it seems like if you have wormy horses you’ve got… dirty fish tanks too.

In all seriousness, although I’ve never seen them used, there are some ketamine analogues used in veterinary medicine that might be used in humans some day. I think alphaxalone was tried in humans, but people found it unpleasant.
 
Sure. Probably could pick up some fish tank cleaner the next aisle over. A lot of times, it seems like if you have wormy horses you’ve got… dirty fish tanks too.

In all seriousness, although I’ve never seen them used, there are some ketamine analogues used in veterinary medicine that might be used in humans some day. I think alphaxalone was tried in humans, but people found it unpleasant.


One of our elderly horses recently had some tooth extractions. The vet gave him ketamine 100mg IV prior to giving him maxillary nerve blocks which was the primary anesthetic. He didn’t even flinch during the injection.


Also there’s this old thread.



Many years ago there was an anesthesia listserv called gasnet. Pauline Wong, a veterinary anesthesiologist from UC Davis was an active contributor. But it is no longer active.


 
Reminds me of a joke told to me by one of our nurses who is from Kentucky.

“Why is it so hard to be a forensic pathologist in Kentucky?”

“Because there are no dental records and all the DNA is the same.”
How can you tell the toothbrush was invented in Kentucky.

If it was invented anywhere else, they would have called it a TEETHbrush.
 
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