GRH Anaesthesia and Analgesia

 Matt Gurney, Clinical Director at Anderson Moores Veterinary Specialists, evaluates the use of paracetamol in pain management.

  Caroline Kyle and Mary Tonge from the Small Animal Teaching Hospital in Liverpool provide notes on the important considerations when anaesthetizing the geriatric dog.

Nicola Waring discusses the physiology of pain, the importance of managing pain in dogs and cats, and how to use published scoring systems in acute pain. This one-hour webinar was first broadcast as part of BSAVA’s Learn@Lunch series. Learn@Lunch broadcasts are available to BSAVA members only and are free to attend - visit the education page of the BSAVA website for details of future Learn@Lunch webinars. Recordings will be available for 3 years via the BSAVA Webinar Library.

  Giulia Marchionne and Enzo Vettorato of Dick White Referrals explain how to apply principles of pain management to cats in the perioperative period.

Critically ill patients routinely require either anaesthesia or sedation in order to facilitate diagnosis or treatment. This chapter reviews the approach to anaesthesia, sedation and analgesia of critically ill patients; with detailed information on indications and contraindications for many commonly used drugs.

Pain is a component of many ophthalmic diseases and the provision of adequate analgesia is an ethical obligation for all veterinary clinicians. This chapter considers the anaesthetic approach to the ophthalmic patient and encompasses the following aspects: analgesia; relevant aspects of ocular physiology; pre-anaesthetic assessment; formulation of an anaesthetic plan; intraoperative monitoring; postoperative care; special techniques, including provision of neuromuscular blockade.