An evaluation of three anaesthetic regimes in the gray short-tailed opossum (Monodelphis domestica) |
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Authors: | L S Keller C K Drozdowicz L Rice T A Bowman C M Lang |
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Institution: | Department of Comparative Medicine, Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Pennsylvania State University, Hershey 17033. |
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Abstract: | The effect of several anaesthetic agents on the gray short-tailed opossum (Monodelphis domestica) was investigated. Pentobarbitone sodium at a dose of 50 mg/kg sedated the animals but did not produce analgesia or anaesthesia. A combination of ketamine hydrochloride and xylazine at 40 mg/kg and 5 mg/kg, respectively, sedated the animals, but anaesthetic levels were not attained. Halothane was most effective in producing anaesthesia in Monodelphis domestica. Hypothermia was a major side effect with all three anaesthetic regimes. |
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