Chicken GA

Re: Chicken GA

les punton — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 19:59:01 GMT

im not a hugh fan but we have gased down, tubed and maintained on sevo/o2. kept tube in til last 2nd but it was an extremely quick recovery ..................got a bit of a fright haha. it was an eye enucleation!

Re: Chicken GA

Carli Dodd — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 14:31:56 GMT

Backyard poultry and waterfowl are definitely growing in popularity and owners are more willing to pay for procedures/diagnostics etc.

For any bird anaesthesia intubating and ventilating the patient massively reduces GA issues. We keep them tubed and ventilated until they cough the tube out, this again has reduced recovery problems.

HR, RR, temperature, BP is also a really good tool if you can get it set up right for birds.

Re: Chicken GA

Sally Seddon — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 21:52:27 GMT

Thanks guys, just wondering for future reference. One of the ducks we had in was an indian runner.

Re: Chicken GA

Rachel Jayne — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 21:27:18 GMT

I helped with an indian runner duck once that was given propflo i/v into a saphenous vein, did very well

Re: Chicken GA

dinkyd — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 21:24:17 GMT

Would expect a higer flow rate would be required.Monitoring hr, rr, and prob the most important would be to keep it warm.

Re: Chicken GA

bongo — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 19:18:32 GMT

have done a GA on a turkey before now! monitored HR and RR mainly, lots of o2 after anaesthetic agent switched off, pretty much until it was awake. quite a good, quick recovery actually, was quite impressed!

masked down and maintained on isoflo and o2.