Anestesia injetável ou inalatória em animais geriátricos? considerações fisiológicas e farmacológicas - revisão de literatura.

Abstract

Injectable or inhalation anesthesia in geriatric animals? physiological and pharmacological considerations - literature review. The researches in the veterinary medicine on alterations behavioral and physics that accompany the processes of aging of canine teeth and felines have been deserving special attention, tends in view the significant increase of those patient ones in the Veterinary Doctor's routine. Geriatric animals present physiologic alterations that they reduce the capacity of reservation of several organs, those alterations become more evident when the same is submitted the some stress type, as a surgery. The age in itself is not a disease, but the changes related to the age and the diseases affect the anesthetic handling, being of highest importance that the selected anesthetics provides fast recovery, and the minima adverse effects. To present literature revision aims to discourse on the anesthetics employment more used in geriatric animals, embracing characteristics and adverse effects of this employment.