We primarily use procedural sedation for certain diagnostic procedures such as computerized tomography (CT) or orthopedic knee surgery (although patients undergoing other procedures are considered on a case-by-case basis). Because the animal is not completely unconscious, this form of anesthesia has reduced effects in the cardiovascular and gastrointestinal systems and shortened recovery time. Potential complications may include failure of the anesthetic technique drug-induced low blood pressure (hypotension) adverse reactions to the drugs being administered including drug toxicity, allergic reactions infection hemorrhage inability to urinate neurological complications involving the spinal cord or central nervous system which, although rare, may result in temporary or permanent paralysis urinary retention pruritus (itchiness) slow re-growth of hair over the injection site.īoth types of anesthesia are frequently used in combination so as to take advantage of their positive attributes while limiting their undesirable side effects, and increasing the safety of anesthesia while optimizing pain relief.Īlso known as twilight sleep or conscious sedation procedural sedation is often combined with a locoregional block to sedate an animal for surgery or a diagnostic procedure. Medication is then placed into this space. A needle is placed between the vertebrae into a space called the epidural space. Epidural is another type of regional analgesic/anesthetic technique that involves injecting a local anesthetic drug or an analgesic drug such as morphine, around the spinal cord.Potential complications may include failure of the anesthetic technique hemorrhage adverse reactions to the drugs being administered including drug toxicity, allergic reactions infection complications involving the nervous system which, although rare, may result in temporary or permanent paralysis. Frequently used local anesthetic drugs include bupivacaine and lidocaine. The nerves that give feeling to the area being operated on are “blocked” by the local anesthetic so that pain cannot be felt. Peripheral nerve blocks which involve making numb only that part of the body to be operated on, for example a leg.Our board-certified anesthesiologists develop an individualized plan for the care of each patient.Īs with any medical procedure, there are inherent risks involved in anesthesia including, but not limited to, low blood pressure, respiratory depression, adverse reactions anesthetic drugs, equipment malfunction, complications related to infection, allergic reactions or even failure of the anesthetic technique itself. General anesthesia is produced by injecting drugs into your pet’s blood stream or by your pet breathing an anesthetic gas. Anesthesia is a drug-induced state of unconsciousness that enables veterinarians to perform surgery, or other therapeutic and diagnostic procedures, that would otherwise not be possible on awake animal patients.
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