Anaesthesia & Analgesia

5 important questions on Anaesthesia & Analgesia

What is anesthesia and analgesia?

Anesthesia is the loss of consciousness and sensation
  • inability to move and relax muscles
Analgesia is the loss of sensitivity to pain

This is important:
  • Pre-operactive care will reduce complications.
  • Reproducible results: no abnormalilties
  • Animal welfare influence experimental outcome

What are the dis and advantages of inhalation anaethetics?

Advantage
  • Induce rapid anesthetic
  • allow animal to achieve desired anesthetic plane (avoid deeper and undesired plane)
  • subtle anesthetic depth changes during procedure (with injectable administration, anesthetic goes to liver metabolism)


Disadvantage
  • rapid anesthetic depth changes requite close animal monitoring
  • expensive equipment
  • waste anesthetic gad released into environment (health risk)
  • lack of analgesic properties during recovery
  • dose-dependent decreases in respiration function, cardiac out and blood pressure

What are the various routes od injectable anesthetic administration?

IP
  • high risk for misplacement


SC (preferabel)
  • no sensitive differences with IP distribution


IM (to avoid)
  • painful, scratching of area --> necrosis


IV
  • infusion pump
  • technical skill


IP, SC, IM compared to IV
  1. slower absorption
  2. possible residual effect can persist --> slow recovery
  3. different dosage
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Can multiple anesthetic and analgesia drugs be used?

Yes!

Multiple anaesthetic drugs with complementary modes of action to minimize the dose of each drug required
  • each drug has specific effect
  • beneficial synergic effect
  • with lowest doses of each agents and therefore less undesired side effects


Multi-modal analgesia (multiple drugs with different mechanisms of action) provides the beste analgesia possible
  • NSAID + opioid
  • adminstration
    • food & drinking water
      • less stressful, however, no control on dosis and can affect taste
    • injectable
      • more stressful, but control over correct dosage

What are the advantage of pre-emptive analgesia?

  • Reduce intensity of painful stimulation
  • improves animal comfort level after surgery
  • decreases the amount of anesthetics required to maintain surgical plane
  • results in smoother recovery

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