Vol. 12, Special Issue 11 (2023)

Author(s):
Leela MS, Sandeep Singh and AM Pawde

Abstract:
The study was conducted on eighteen pyometra affected female dogs randomly divided into three group’s i.e. groups A, B and C with six animals in each group to compare the physiological, biochemical and haemodynamic effects of CRI of zoletil, ketamine-midazolam and propofol balanced anaesthesia for ovariohysterectomy in female dogs with pyometra in the Teaching Veterinary Clinical Complex & Referral Veterinary Polyclinic, Indian Veterinary Research Institute (IVRI), Izatnagar, Uttar Pradesh, India. Animals of the three groups were administered with atropine at 0.04 mg/kg BW intramuscular followed by dexmeditomidine 15 μg/kg BW intramuscularly to animals of all the groups. Anaesthesia in the animals of group A was induced with zoletil (till effect), group B with ketamine-midazolam (till Effect), and group C with 1% propofol (till effect) then after 5 min it was maintained with CRI using a syringe infusion pump. In the present study all the three drugs are suitable to use as CRI drugs and can be safely used in dogs with pyometra undergoing ovariohysterectomy. However, propofol is better in maintaining physiological, haemodynamic and have shorter recovery period.