Cardiopulmonary effects of intrathecal ketamine or ketamine-ifenprodil on sevoflurane anesthetized horses.

• Grant number: 11/16398-8
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master
• Start date: March 01, 2012
• End date: February 28, 2014
• Field of knowledge: Agronomical Sciences - Veterinary Medicine - Animal Clinics and Surgery
• Principal Investigator: Carlos Augusto Araújo Valadão
• Grantee: Darcio Zangirolami Filho
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Ciências Agrárias e Veterinárias (FCAV). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Jaboticabal. Jaboticabal , SP, Brazil

Abstract

The subarachnoid injection of anesthetics or analgesics has been associated with inhalatory anesthesia to increase the analgesia intra and post operative . Spinal ketamine, a N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor antagonist, has been used to prevent or treat pain induced by surgical procedures. These antinociceptive effects of ketamine, was observed after the subarachnoid injection in dogs and rats and was potentiated by the ifenprodil, an antagonist of polyamine site, located on the NMDA receptor complex. There are no published data regarding the spinal use of this drugs in horses submitted to the inhalation anesthesia. The aim of this study is to evaluate the cardiorespiratory effects of ketamine and ifenprodil subarachnoid injection in horses anesthetized with sevoflurane.

Academic Publications

(References retrieved automatically from State of São Paulo Research Institutions)

ZANGIROLAMI FILHO, Darcio. Efeitos cardiorrespiratórios da administração subaracnóide de cetamina ou da associação com ifenprodil em equinos anestesiados com sevofluorano. 2014. Master's Dissertation - Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp). Faculdade de Ciências Agrárias e Veterinárias. Jaboticabal Jaboticabal.