title: Equine anaesthesia-associated mortality: where are we now?
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To review the literature concerning mortality associated with general anaesthesia in horses and to assess whether there is evidence for a reduction in mortality over the 20 years since the Confidential Enquiry into Perioperative Equine Fatalities (CEPEF).
  
  
  METHODS
  PubMed, Scopus, Google Scholar. Search terms used: horse; pony; equine; anaesthesia; anesthesia; recovery; morbidity, and mortality.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The most recent studies, in which isoflurane and sevoflurane have been more commonly used for anaesthesia maintenance, report fewer intraoperative cardiac arrests than older studies in which halothane was favoured. Catastrophic fractures, however, have become the greatest cause of recovery-associated mortality.
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, Institute of Veterinary Science, University of Liverpool, Neston, UK.
authors.forename: Alexandra H A
authors.initials: AH
authors.lastname: Dugdale
authors.affiliation: Taylor Monroe, Little Downham, UK.
authors.forename: Polly M
authors.initials: PM
authors.lastname: Taylor
mesh_terms: D000768:Anesthesia, General / Q000401:mortality / Q000662:veterinary*; D000818:Animals; D006736:Horses
keywords: anaesthesia; equine; mortality; recovery