Standing sedation with medetomidine and butorphanol in captive African elephants (Loxodonta africana)
| Autor: | Ilse Luther, Liana Maree, Brendan Tindall, Deborah Young, Henk J. Bertschinger, I. Lüders, G. van der Horst, Stephan Botha |
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| Rok vydání: | 2014 |
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medicine.medical_specialty 040301 veterinary sciences Butorphanol Sedation Elephants Posture Conscious Sedation Naltrexone 0403 veterinary science African elephant 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine biology.animal medicine Animals Hypnotics and Sedatives Standing sedation 030219 obstetrics & reproductive medicine General Veterinary biology Dose-Response Relationship Drug business.industry Age Factors Atipamezole 04 agricultural and veterinary sciences Medetomidine Surgery Drug Combinations Anesthesia Animal Science and Zoology medicine.symptom business Intramuscular injection medicine.drug |
| Zdroj: | Veterinary journal (London, England : 1997). 209 |
| ISSN: | 1532-2971 |
| Popis: | Doses for standing sedation allowing for various procedures in otherwise inaccessible, untrained captive African elephant bulls are presented. Thirty-three standing sedations were performed in 12 males aged 8–30 years (one to four sedations per animal). Each bull received a combination of 0.009 ± 0.002 mg/kg medetomidine and 0.03 ± 0.007 mg/kg butorphanol. Full sedation was reached on average 25.5 min after injection. The addition of hyaluronidase (1000–2000 IU) significantly reduced time to full sedation to 16.5 min (paired t test, P = 0.024). Reversal was induced with intramuscular atipamezole 0.008 (±0.002) and naltrexone 0.035 (±0.015) mg/kg. Recovery took on average 7 min (3–18 min). The medetomidine/butorphanol combination provided safe standing sedation for smaller procedures. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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