Pet Anesthetics
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
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%
