What is it about?
Maropitant is a veterinary drug approved to use in dogs and cats to prevent vomiting from numerous causes. Maropitant can be used to prevent or decrease nausea and vomiting associated with anesthetic drugs. It has additional attributes which make it a worthwhile addition to the peri-anesthetic drug protocol in canine and feline veterinary anesthetic patients such as providing visceral pain relief, decreasing nausea and vomiting and helping patients return to eating food faster after anesthesia.
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Why is it important?
Freedom from pain, discomfort and distress are important objectives for veterinary practitioners. Maropitant prevents or decreases peri-anesthetic nausea and vomiting, which are known to cause distress and discomfort in humans. In addition, maropitant decreases the amount of gas anesthetic required by providing adjunct analgesia. A faster return to feeding allows reversal of the patient's peri-operative negative energy balance.
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Preventing and relieving distress, discomfort and pain are important objectives for veterinary practitioners. Maropitant is an approved drug for dogs and cats that will prevent or decrease peri-anesthetic vomiting and nausea, provide adjunct analgesia and allow return to feeding postoperatively to allow patients to recover from anesthesia and surgery.
Bonnie Hay Kraus
Iowa State University College of Veterinary Medicine
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This page is a summary of: Spotlight on the perioperative use of maropitant citrate, Veterinary Medicine Research and Reports, August 2017, Dove Medical Press,
DOI: 10.2147/vmrr.s126469.
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