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Volume 22 (3):267-272, 2018.
Epidural effects of buprenorphine with bupivacaine, xylazine and ketamine in dogs
Sharma YK, Pandey
SS, Pandey SK
Department of Veterinary Surgery and Radiology, College of
Veterinary Science and Animal Health, Mpow, India.
ABSTRACT
Sharma YK, Pandey SS,
Pandey SK, Epidural effects of buprenorphine with bupivacaine, xylazine and ketamine in dogs, Onl
J Vet Res., 22 (4) : 267-272, 2018. Six dogs were given atropine
sulphate 0.04 mg/kg IM 20 min before treatments with
(I) buprenorphine hydrochloride 0.05 mg/kg and bupivacaine hydrochloride 0.5% 1
mg/kg, (II) buprenorphine hydrochloride 0.05 mg/kg and xylazine
hydrochloride 0.75 mg/kg b.wt and (III),
buprenorphine hydrochloride 0.05 mg/kg with ketamine hydrochloride 3 mg/kg epidurally at the lumbosacral space. The mean induction
time was 2.40 ± 0.15, 2.72 ± 0.19 and 3.65 ± 0.30 min for treatments I, II and
III respectively. There was no significant variation between onset values of
analgesia in treatment I and II, but treatment III differed significantly
(P<0.05) from I and II. Average duration of analgesia for treatments I, II
and III was 70.93 ± 3.92, 88.44 ± 2.70 and 112.68 ± 3.40 min, respectively, and
again, treatment III differed significantly (P<0.05) from I and II.
Significant decreases in pulse, heart and respiration rates occurred in treatments
I and II whereas in III, they increased. Body temperatures decreased
significantly during all treatments.
Key-words: Epidural,
buprenorphine, bupivacaine, xylazine, ketamine, dogs.
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