Ketamine as a part of anaesthetic management in a dog with twiddler's syndrome.
J Small Anim Pract
; 55(2): 116-20, 2014 Feb.
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| ID: mdl-24117717
ABSTRACT
An 11-year-old male German shepherd dog was referred for possible pacemaker implantation. A routine 6-lead electrocardiogram revealed a third-degree atrio-ventricular block with a heart rate of 40 to 45 beats/minute. A transvenous pacemaker implantation procedure was scheduled. The dog was premedicated with 10 µg/kg acepromazine and 5 mg/kg pethidine. A dose of 5 mg/kg ketamine and 0·2 mg/kg diazepam were used for induction and isoflurane in O2 and a constant rate infusion of ketamine (20 to 30 µg/kg/minute) were administered for maintenance of general anaesthesia. Due to a twiddler's syndrome, the pacemaker had to be repositioned. For the second procedure, the same protocol was employed except for a lower dose of ketamine both for induction (3 mg/kg) and constant rate infusion (10 to 15 µg/kg/minute). Ketamine appeared to be useful for both management of anaesthesia and cardiac pacemaker implantation in the absence of a temporary pacemaker.
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01-internacional
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MEDLINE
Main subject:
Pacemaker, Artificial
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Dog Diseases
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Anesthesia, General
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Ketamine
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Anesthetics, Dissociative
Limits:
Animals
Language:
En
Journal:
J Small Anim Pract
Year:
2014
Document type:
Article
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