Exotic Anaesthesia

RE: Exotic Anaesthesia

Selena Carnell — Sun, 06 Dec 2015 10:24:26 GMT

doppler for heart monitoring. Be prepared to manually ventilate. heatpads - fluids always tube - masking doesn't always work

RE: Exotic Anaesthesia

Jessica Bell — Sat, 05 Dec 2015 08:25:11 GMT

I want alfaxan so bad :(

RE: Exotic Anaesthesia

Rebecca Lindsay — Sat, 05 Dec 2015 08:23:20 GMT

If you can use Alfaxan I would, there's a bit of research into using it over propofol. I worked for 6 years at an exotic referral, for reptiles undergoing a long GA we would give alfaxan IV and then intubate and give iso via a ventilator. Keeping them warm throughout the procedure and on recovery helps to prevent long recovery times, bubble wrap, heat pads, heated room are all useful. Monitor the heart with a doppler probe and monitor the temperature. We would also give metacam, an appropriate antibiotic and intraosseous fluids.

RE: Exotic Anaesthesia

Jessica Bell — Fri, 04 Dec 2015 23:47:37 GMT

Hello hello

Ive done quite a bit of work reptiles and other exotics in practice. It depends what your bearded dragon needs it's ga for but I would advise butorphanol premed followed by propofol and then isoflow. Ketamine causes prolonged recoveries so avoid if you can.

The most important considerations for their ga's are hydration, temperature and oxygen. Reptiles have anatomically slightly different kidneys to our mammalian friends so hydration is critical, some warmed intracolemic fluids preop will be beneficial. Also ensure your scaly friend is heated with a heatpad or similar during the ga. From the oxygen point of view, unlike mammals reptiles respire due to low partial presure of oxygen so they don't spontaneously respire when on oxygen and iso. You'll need to ventilate him/her manually to ensure he/she is breathing. Et tubes are quite east to place.

As already mentioned a doppler should be used to monitor heart rate.

Post op we hospitalise ours for at least 24 hours for analgesia, intracolemic fluids and monitoring.

Hope this is helpful.

Jess x

RE: Exotic Anaesthesia

kayleigh bridge — Fri, 04 Dec 2015 18:04:09 GMT

hey , advice totally depends on the drugs used on it, if they are giving it ketamine I would advise strating off at the lower end of dosing as ketamine take a very long time to wear off sometimes day. if you have a Doppler probe from a BP machine they are good for placing over their heart and monitoring HB.

someone told me a trick once as I had a bearded dragon that would not wake up from ga was to use a hair dryer and gently waft warm air to the back of their head obviously from a distance so not to cause burns this made my Bd jump awake.

thanks