title: Anesthesia and surgery of ratites.
abstract: Veterinary practitioners should apply common principles of anesthesia and surgery used in domestic livestock to ratites. Routine procedures can be accomplished in the field or in a veterinary hospital, provided practitioners become familiar with response of ratites to sedation and anesthesia.
authors: Animal Medical Center, Inc., Claremore, Oklahoma, USA.
authors: E F
authors: EF
authors: Gilsleider
mesh_terms: D000758:Anesthesia / Q000662:veterinary*; D000818:Animals; D050723:Fractures, Bone / Q000601:surgery / Q000662:veterinary; D046108:Palaeognathae / Q000002:abnormalities / Q000293:injuries / Q000502:physiology* / Q000601:surgery*