Cuidados anestésicos em pequenos animais: revisão de literatura.

Abstract

Anesthesiology is an area of veterinary medicine that has been developing considerably in recent years, due to the need and demand for techniques that reduce pre, trans and postoperative pain, also based on other problems resulting from the inadequate use of tranquillizers and Anesthetics. Anesthesiology is an area that although it is of routine application, needs additional care for its execution, and several factors are involved in the complications that follow in the pre-anesthetic, trans-anesthetic, and post-anesthetic phases. The complications that occur in the anesthetic-surgical acts are very common. Problems due to technical failure by the anesthesiologist and the equipment used, as well as the lack of knowledge about the pharmacology and pharmacokinetics of the drugs used, applied to each category of patients, Such as hepatopathies, nephropathies, geriatric, neonates, pregnant and obese, each of which has its anatomical and physiological characteristics. This review will address the main anesthetic care in small animals, the professional training of the anesthesiologist, as well as the pre-anesthetic evaluation, during the surgical-anesthetic procedure, and the postoperative.