Vol. 11, Special Issue 11 (2022)

Author(s):
AR Chaudhary, DN Suthar, SK Jhala, VS Dabas and KD Patel

Abstract:
A total twelve clinical cases of dogs requiring general anaesthesia for surgical procedures were randomly divided into two groups having six animals in each group. All dogs were premedicated with atropine sulphate @ 0.02 mg/kg b.wt. and pentazocine @ 2 mg/kg b.wt. intramuscularly and diazepam @ 0.5 mg/kg b.wt. intravenously. Induction of anaesthesia was achieved by 1% propofol in group I and 0.2% etomidate in group II intravenously till the effect and maintained by isoflurane upto 50 minutes in both the groups. Clinico-physiological and haemato-biochemical parameters were recorded and evaluated at different time intervals during the study period and found alterations in clinico-physiological and haemato-biochemical parameters within the normal ranges in both the groups; however, pulse rate was significantly dropped in group I after induction of propofol and it remained stable after induction of etomidate up to end of study in group II.