Anaesthetic management for caesarean section in the dog and cat and the management of the newborn

摘要

Several major physiologic changes in respiratory, cardiovascular, and gastrointestinal systems occur during pregnancy, exhausting all mechanisms of compensation and show effects on anaesthetic management. Most anaesthetic drugs cross the placenta rapidly and lead to a marked fetal depression. Therefore cardiodepressive anaesthetics are contraindicated and short-acting anaesthetics as well as drugs with specific antagonists are preferred combined with local anaesthesia (e. p. epidural block). Principles of anaesthetic techniques of caesarean section are presented for dogs and cats.