Ketamine and its use in the pig. Recommendations of the Consensus meeting on Ketamine Anaesthesia in Pigs, Bergen 1994. Ketamine Consensus Working Group.
Ketamine, when used as a mono-anaesthetic, does not appear to induce surgical anaesthesia in the pig. The addition of other drugs such as opioids, benzodiazepines and alpha 2-adrenergic agonists deepens anaesthesia and enables major surgery to be performed. A decision-tree for the rational use of ketamine for both short and long-term anaesthesia in the pig under three different levels of procedure severity is presented.
Boschert
K
K
Flecknell
P A
PA
Fosse
R T
RT
Framstad
T
T
Ganter
M
M
Sjøstrand
U
U
Stevens
J
J
Thurman
J
J
D000758:Anesthesia / Q000592:standards / Q000662:veterinary*; D000778:Anesthetics, Dissociative / Q000494:pharmacology / Q000592:standards*; D000818:Animals; D003663:Decision Trees; D006801:Humans; D007649:Ketamine / Q000494:pharmacology / Q000592:standards*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D013552:Swine / Q000502:physiology*
D000778:Anesthetics, Dissociative; D007649:Ketamine