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Anesthesia is accomplished by administering drugs that depress nerve function. With general anesthesia, the animal is made unconscious for a short period. During this unconscious state, there is muscular relaxation and a complete loss of pain sensation. Other types of anesthesia include local anesthesia, such as numbing a localized area of skin or an area like a paw.

There is always a risk of an adverse reaction when we use any anesthetic agent, whether it is for a minor, short-term sedation or for general anesthesia lasting several hours. It is generally estimated that approximately 1 in 100,000 animals will have some sort of reaction to an anesthetic agent.

Anesthetized patients lose the normal reflex ability to swallow. If there is food in the stomach, the cat could vomit while under anesthesia or in the early post-anesthetic period. If vomiting occurs in the absence of the swallowing reflex, vomited material can be aspirated leading to pneumonia, a potentially life-threatening condition.

Injected anesthetics are among the most commonly used anesthetic agents in cats. These medications are often given as an intravenous (IV) injection, although some injected anesthetics can be given in the muscle. Common injected anesthetics in cats include:

• diazepam
• ketamine
• propofol
• alfaxalone

After anesthetizing your cat with injected anesthesia an endotracheal tube needs to be inserted in your cat’s trachea.

When it is necessary to keep a cat sedated for a prolonged period of time inhalant anesthetic is required. Isoflurane and sevoflurane are the two most common inhalant anesthetics used in cats.

• isoflurane
• sevoflurane

cat anesthetics

natural anesthetics are opium,coca,curare, alcohol, hemp, mandrake etc..

chloroform or GHB

Papaver somniferum seeds and mandrake

morphine from my papaver somniferum and atropine, scopolamine from my mandrake

Ether is very safe or might be safer than Isoflurane.

farmers sometimes use only ether for paralyzing their cat so, I started to read 'Manual of etherization', which is a free ebook from Google

isoflurane is more safe than ether.

Ether has not been used as an anasthetic for animals for a long, long time. Isoflourane and so on have taken over from it

The biggest danger, however, is that the difference between a dose sufficient to anaesthatise and one that is lethal to 50%