title: Anaesthesia of three young grey seals (Halichoerus grypus) for fracture repair.
abstract: Three young grey seals (Halichoerus grypus) were presented separately for fracture repair to the veterinary teaching hospital of University College Dublin. The seals were premedicated with a combination of pethidine, midazolam and atropine; anaesthesia was induced with propofol via the front flipper vein and maintained with sevoflurane or isoflurane in oxygen. One of the seals did not breathe spontaneously after anaesthesia; a cardiac arrest, resulting in death, occurred after several hours of mechanical ventilation. Post-mortem examination revealed a severe lungworm infestation and parasitic pneumonia in this animal. The two other seals recovered uneventfully from anaesthesia.
authors.affiliation: UCD Veterinary Hospital, School of Agriculture, Food Science and Veterinary Medicine, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland. Vilhelmiina.Huuskonen@ucd.ie.
authors.forename: Vilhelmiina
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Huuskonen
authors.forename: Lynne
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Hughes
authors.forename: Rachel
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Bennett