Vol. 11, Issue 11 (2022)

The comparative anaesthetic study of ketamine-midazolam and tiletamine-zolazepam as induction and isoflurane as maintenance anaesthesia on clinico-physiological and haemato-biochemical parameters was conducted in eighteen clinical cases of cats requiring general anaesthesia and were randomly assigned into two groups (n=9 each). Anaesthesia was induced by intramuscular injection of ketamine @ 10 mg/kg b.wt. along with midazolam @ 1 mg/kg b.wt. in group I and tiletamine @ 5 mg/kg b.wt. along with zolazepam @ 5 mg/kg b.wt. in group II. After achieving desired depth of induction anaesthesia, animals were shifted on inhalation anaesthesia using isoflurane with 100% oxygen through face mask. Tiletamine-zolazepam anaesthetic combination produced minimum fluctuation of clinico-physiological and haemato-biochemical parameters as compared to ketamine-midazolam combination in cats.