Utilização de benzodiazepínicos em protocolos de anestesia total intravenosa (TIVA) em equinos: revisão de literatura

Abstract

General Anesthesia in horses is extremely important in the practice of Veterinary Medicine, and can be applied in short, medium and long-term procedures, even in veterinary hospitals and reference clinics, as well in field situations. Total Intravenous Anesthesia (TIVA) in horses is a challenging procedure, due to the specificities of the species and the circumstances usually encountered by the anesthesiologist. It is an anesthetic technique widely used in the field, because this situation presents limitations in several aspects and hinders the promotion of a necessary anesthetic stability due to the absence of sophisticated equipment to monitor the physiological parameters of the animal. Due to this, several anesthetic protocols with drug combinations of various classes have been used to promote anesthesia in the most efficient way possible. Benzodiazepines have been a class of drugs of choice for TIVA because of their pharmacological properties and the purpose of this study is to provide a literature review of the use of this class of drugs in TIVA in horses.