Feline Anaesthesia and Analgesia

Description

Feline anaesthesia requires careful planning and management, they have many differences to other mammal species in how they metabolise drugs and cope with procedures such as intubation. They are known to have a higher anaesthetic mortality rate than dogs and therefore need close monitoring throughout.

• Understand how to monitor anaesthetic recovery in a cat
• Be able to plan a multimodal analgesia protocol for a cat
• Know how to manage laryngospasm
• Know how to correctly intubate a cat
• Understand how to plan a feline anaesthetic
• Understand the specific anaesthetic risks for cats