REPEATED ANESTHESIA IN A BLACK RHINOCEROS (DICEROS BICORNIS) TO MANAGE UPPER RESPIRATORY OBSTRUCTION
| Autor: | Copper Aitken-Palmer, Karisa N. Tang, Ignacio Monge Mora, Ryan S. Bailey, Christoph K. Chinnadurai, Jennifer N. Langan, Michael J. Adkesson |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
| Předmět: |
040301 veterinary sciences
Midazolam Actinomycosis Injections Intramuscular 0403 veterinary science Chemical restraint Actinomyces Animals Medicine Anesthesia Ketamine Perissodactyla Anesthetics Rhinitis Black rhinoceros General Veterinary biology business.industry 0402 animal and dairy science Etorphine Atipamezole 04 agricultural and veterinary sciences General Medicine Medetomidine biology.organism_classification 040201 dairy & animal science Airway Obstruction Anesthetic Animals Zoo Female Animal Science and Zoology business medicine.drug |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine. 49:1041 |
| ISSN: | 1042-7260 |
| DOI: | 10.1638/2018-0095.1 |
| Popis: | This report describes weekly repeated anesthesia in a 7-yr-old, 1,030 kg, female Eastern black rhinoceros ( Diceros bicornis michaeli), that was immobilized six times using a combination of 2 mg etorphine (0.002 mg/kg), 5 mg medetomidine (0.005 mg/kg), 25 mg midazolam (0.024 mg/kg), and 300 mg ketamine (0.29 mg/kg) delivered intramuscularly (IM) via remote dart to facilitate long-term medical care of a bilateral, obstructive Actinomyces sp. rhinitis. The drug combination described in this study resulted in reliable, rapid recumbency of the animal within 2-8 min after initial administration via dart and produced deep anesthesia for 34-78 min without supplemental anesthetic administration. Antagonist drugs (100 mg naltrexone [0.1 mg/kg] and 25 mg atipamezole [0.024 mg/kg] IM) produced reliable and uneventful recoveries in all the procedures. During each anesthetic procedure, the animal was intubated and provided intermittent positive pressure ventilation with a megavertebrate demand ventilator. Tachycardia and hypoxia noted after induction resolved after positive pressure ventilation with oxygen. This report provides useful information on a novel anesthetic protocol used repeatedly for intensive medical management in a black rhinoceros. |
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