Anestesia para celiotomia em testudines: relato de caso

Abstract

The reptiles has appeared in the clinic of exotic animals with a higher frequency in recent years and a huge variety of species. These species has its anatomical and physiological characteristics. Because of this, it is often necessary to administer anesthetics to a variety of procedures. Several drugs have been used, some of which are of choice when refered to reptiles. Drugs such as propofol in the case of injectable anesthesic, isoflurane as inhalation anesthesic, among others that have been tested and increasingly used in routine. Disadvantages and advantages are observed in several drugs depending on the dose os associations, especially regarding the cardiorespiratory changes. Toassess these changes, a good anesthetic monitoring is necessary, which is a challenge in this class of animals. So, this study aims to discuss the best anesthetic protocols and the most important points in anesthesia monitoring in order to have greater success in anesthesia and the procedure to be realized, in addition to reporting the case of a celiotomy in a tortoise confirming the effective of doxapram as premedication and after surgery in stimulating spontaneous breathing and ketamine, midazolam and isoflurane as anesthetic inducing agents.