Podcast Summary:
In this episode, I speak to Dr Izidora Sladakovic about modern small mammal anaesthesia and the critical strategies that can be used to significantly improve anaesthesia safety and patient outcomes.
Dr Izidora Sladakovic is a Diplomate of the American College of Zoological Medicine, having completed a zoological medicine residency at the University of Georgia, USA. Dr Sladakovic has published many journal articles particularly in the field of exotic endoscopy. She has also contributed to books including the 3rdedition of Mader’s Reptile and Amphibian Medicine and Surgery. She currently runs the Avian and Exotic Service based at Northside Veterinary Specialists in Sydney.
Podcast notes:
3.57 Pre-anaesthetic considerations
16.37 Anaesthesia
35.25 Anaesthestic monitoring
38.50 Fluid therapy
40.04 Analgesia
Links & Resources:
- Mader’s Reptile and Amphibian Medicine and Surgery, third edition – Dr Stephen Divers, Dr Scott Stahl
- American Society of Anesthesiologist’s anaesthesia grading system (This system has been adapted for animals)
- The risk of death: the confidential enquiry into perioperative small animal fatalities (Journal publication)
- Advanced Anaesthesia Specialists
- Evaluation of EMLA cream for preventing pain during tattooing of rabbits: changes in physiological, behavioural and facial expression responses (Journal publication)
- The use of lignocaine-prilocaine local anaesthetic cream for pain-free venipuncture in laboratory animals (Journal publication)
- Cardiology pathology possibly associated with ketamine/xylazine anesthesia in Dutch Belted rabbits (Journal publication)
- Evaluation of detomidine anesthetic combinations in the rabbit (Journal publication)
- Comparative study of three intramuscular anaesthetic combinations (medetomidine/ketamine, medetomidine/fentanyl/ketamine and xylazine/ketamine) in rabbits (Journal publication)
- A comparison between medetomidine-ketamine and medetomidine-propofol anaesthesia in rabbits (Journal publication)
- Nephrotoxicity of tiletamine in New Zealand White rabbits (Journal publication)
- Bair-Hugger heating
- Plasmalyte IV fluid
- Effects of intravenous administration of lidocaine and buprenorphine on gastrointestinal tract motility and signs of pain in New Zealand White rabbits after ovariohysterectomy (Journal publication)
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