Analgesic, behavioral and sedation evaluation of sub-anesthetic ketamine S (+) in pre-medicated horses with xylazine

• Grant number: 06/03806-2
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: October 01, 2006
• End date: September 30, 2007
• Field of knowledge: Agronomical Sciences - Veterinary Medicine - Animal Clinics and Surgery
• Principal Investigator: Carlos Augusto Araújo Valadão
• Grantee: Cândice Mara Bertonha
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Ciências Agrárias e Veterinárias (FCAV). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Jaboticabal. Jaboticabal , SP, Brazil

Abstract

Ketamine, a dissociative anesthetic induces analgesia and catleptoid state, has been used to produce equine anesthesia. Xylazine has a sedative, analgesic and muscular relaxant effects in this specie. The propose of this study is evaluate the hemogasometric, analgesic and behavioral effects of SC ketamine in xilazine premedicated horses.