What is it about?
This review aims to improve veterinary small animal practitioners knowledge bases on the uses, success rates and possible applications. Furthermore, the potential complications and treatments associated with the various techniques is explored.
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Why is it important?
1. Motivates for the improved peri-operative experience for dogs and cats undergoing invasive surgery. 2. Provides steps on how to perform the technique 3. Help increase the number of vets performing this local anaesthetic technique in first opinion practice. Highlights the complications which may arise and the treatments that should be employed.
Perspectives
Local anaesthetic techniques is routinely performed in human anaesthesia, but less so in veterinary anaesthesia. This review is a great addition to the literature currently out on epidural anaesthesia and I am excited about the potential increase use of this massively effective technique among my colleagues.. It provides basic approaches to the technique which is easy to understand and reproduce in a first opinion setting.
Jacques Ferreira
Willows Veterinary Centre and Referral Centre
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This page is a summary of: Epidural anaesthesia–analgesia in the dog and cat: considerations, technique and complications, Companion Animal, November 2018, Mark Allen Group,
DOI: 10.12968/coan.2018.23.11.628.
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