Medical Director The Marine Mammal Center Sausalito, California
This lecture will focus on the unique challenges for general anesthesia in marine mammal patients, with a particular focus on pinnipeds and cetaceans. As ocean-dwellers, marine mammals are routinely exposed to extreme conditions, and have highly adapted physiology to withstand the cold, dark, salty, wet and high pressure environment in which they live and thrive. Some examples include respiratory, circulatory and musculoskeletal adaptations that can complicate anesthesia and surgical procedures.
