KETAMINE AND ITS USE IN THE PIG - RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE CONSENSUS MEETING ON KETAMINE ANESTHESIA IN PIGS, BERGEN 1994

Authors
BOSCHERT K FLECKNELL PA FOSSE RT FRAMSTAD T GANTER M SJOSTRAND U STEVENS J THURMON J
Citation
K. Boschert et al., KETAMINE AND ITS USE IN THE PIG - RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE CONSENSUS MEETING ON KETAMINE ANESTHESIA IN PIGS, BERGEN 1994, Laboratory animals, 30(3), 1996, pp. 209-219
Citations number
28
Categorie Soggetti
Veterinary Sciences
Journal title
Laboratory animals → ACNP
ISSN journal
00236772
Volume
30
Issue
3
Year of publication
1996
Pages
209 - 219
Database
ISI
SICI code
0023-6772(1996)30:3<209:KAIUIT>2.0.ZU;2-Z
Abstract
Ketamine, when used as a mono-anaesthetic, does not appear to induce s urgical anaesthesia in the pig. The addition of other drugs such as op ioids, benzodiazepines and alpha(2)-adrenergic agonists deepens anaest hesia and enables major surgery to be performed. A decision-tree for t he rational use of ketamine for both short and long-term anaesthesia i n the pig under three different levels of procedure severity is presen ted.