1MVSc Scholar, Department of Veterinary Surgery and Radiology, College of Veterinary Science, Ludhiana
2Professor, Department of Teaching Veterinary Clinical Complex, College of Veterinary Science, Ludhiana
3Assistant Professor, Department of Veterinary Surgery and Radiology, College of Veterinary Science, Ludhiana
4Professor, Department of Veterinary Surgery and Radiology, College of Veterinary Science, Ludhiana
Guru Angad Dev Veterinary and Animal Science University, Ludhiana-(Punjab)
*Corresponding author; E-mail: skmahajan73@yahoo.co.in
Online published on 2 May, 2019.
The present study was conducted on 10 clinical cases of horses to evaluate xylazine-ketamine-isoflurane and xylazineguafenesin-ketamine-isoflurane combinations for general anaesthesia. All the animals were randomly divided into two groups each having 5 animals. In group I xylazine was given as preanaesthetic agent while in group II xylazine and guaifenesin were used. Induction of anaesthesia was done by ketamine (2.2–5 mg/kg b.wt) in both groups and isoflurane (2.2–4%) was used as maintenance agent. Sedation and analgesia was adequate in both groups while muscle relaxation was more in group II. Xylazine-guaifenesin was found to be better preanaesthetic combination in terms of induction quality, clinicophysiological, haematobiochemical parameters and recovery quality as compared to xylazine alone.
Anaesthesia, isoflurane, horses, ketamine, xylazine
