Source: VETERINARY MEDICINE
 March 1, 2009
By:Christine Egger, DVM, MVSc, DACVA, Lydia Love, DVM
Traditionally, peripheral nerve blockade has been achieved by identifying anatomical landmarks and speculatively depositing local anesthetic agents.
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Source: VETERINARY MEDICINE
March 1, 2009
By:Christine Egger, DVM, MVSc, DACVA, Lydia Love, DVM
These anesthetic methods, including one recently recommended alternative block, will help you control pain in animals undergoing stifle surgeries, forelimb surgeries, limb amputations, or thoracotomies, as well as in patients with thoracic trauma or cranial abdominal pain.
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Source: VETERINARY MEDICINE
March 1, 2009
We urge you to amend Table 4 on page 32 in your January issue of Veterinary Medicine so that incorrect dosages are not inadvertently used in the future.
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Source: VETERINARY MEDICINE
January 1, 2009
By:Joseph Harari, MS, DVM, DACVS
This study reviews cases from numerous clinics and evaluates newer sedatives and anesthetics.
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Source: VETERINARY MEDICINE
January 1, 2009
By:Christine Egger, DVM, MVSc, DACVA, Lydia Love, DVM
Use sterile scissors to remove the tip of a red rubber catheter proximal to the large hole at the distal end, cutting the catheter to the desired length.
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Source: EQUINE ANESTHESIA
 December 1, 2008
By:Roman T. Skarda, DVM, PhD, DACVA, William W. Muir, DVM, PhD, DACVA, DACVECC, John A.E. Hubbell, DVM, MS, DACVA
The conduction of electrical impulses in excitable membranes requires the flow of sodium ions through ion selective channels in response to depolarization of the nerve cell membrane.
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Source: EQUINE ANESTHESIA
December 1, 2008
By:William W. Muir, DVM, PhD, DACVA, DACVECC
Various short-acting, nonbarbiturate, intravenous anesthetics (metomidate, etomidate, alphaxalone/alphadolone) originally developed for use in humans have been administered to horses to produce short-term anesthesia or induction to inhalant anesthesia.
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