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Anaesthetising a cat with tetralogy of Fallot for nonācardiac surgery
- Source :
- Veterinary Record Case Reports. 5
- Publication Year :
- 2017
- Publisher :
- Wiley, 2017.
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Abstract
- Tetralogy of Fallot (ToF) is a rare congenital cardiac disease, which has been described in many species, including cats. It often causes cyanosis due to deoxygenated blood entering the systemic circulation. The prognosis of uncorrected ToF is generally poor, but some individuals with mild forms of the disease can survive beyond three years of age. A cat with mild, asymptomatic ToF was anaesthetised for elective ovariectomy. The cat was premedicated intramuscularly with methadone and alfaxalone. Anaesthesia was induced with alfaxalone and midazolam and maintained with sevoflurane in oxygen using mechanical ventilation. Intraoperative analgesia was provided with a constant rate infusion of fentanyl and local anaesthesia. Phenylephrine was infused during anaesthesia to maintain adequate systemic vascular resistance. Mild bradycardia during ovarian tissue handling was treated successfully with atropine. Meloxicam and buprenorphine were used to provide postoperative analgesia. The cat did not experience major complications during anaesthesia and made a full recovery.
- Subjects :
- Bradycardia
medicine.medical_specialty
040301 veterinary sciences
medicine.medical_treatment
Sevoflurane
Fentanyl
0403 veterinary science
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
030202 anesthesiology
medicine
Tetralogy of Fallot
Mechanical ventilation
General Veterinary
business.industry
Alfaxalone
04 agricultural and veterinary sciences
medicine.disease
Surgery
medicine.anatomical_structure
Anesthesia
Vascular resistance
Midazolam
medicine.symptom
business
medicine.drug
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 20526121
- Volume :
- 5
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Veterinary Record Case Reports
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........d2a90f10f42f175f4b48e3da34fc05db