VikkiVet
Mama Doe
Had my first rabbit-orientated lecture today - "anaesthetics in small furries" :lol::lol::lol:
It was really good though - they guy was great in going through how to handle rabbits properly, to cuddle them up securely to prevent stress and kicking etc.
He briefly mentioned the hypnosis technique and its benefits in anaesthetic induction - can even replace pre-med apparently! One of my friends did her final year project in this, so it would be interesting to see the results.
What interested me most was that the anaesthetic risk for rabbits is 0.72 compared to dogs which is 0.05 but 60% of these are due to unknown causes and occur post-operatively!! :shock::shock:
Does this imply that something else is going on in terms of metabolising the anaesthetic agents and coming around, or that we are just pretty poor at monitoring rabbits after surgery????
It was really good though - they guy was great in going through how to handle rabbits properly, to cuddle them up securely to prevent stress and kicking etc.
He briefly mentioned the hypnosis technique and its benefits in anaesthetic induction - can even replace pre-med apparently! One of my friends did her final year project in this, so it would be interesting to see the results.
What interested me most was that the anaesthetic risk for rabbits is 0.72 compared to dogs which is 0.05 but 60% of these are due to unknown causes and occur post-operatively!! :shock::shock:
Does this imply that something else is going on in terms of metabolising the anaesthetic agents and coming around, or that we are just pretty poor at monitoring rabbits after surgery????