Which cocktail will get the turtle sleepy enough to perform venipuncture but not so sleepy that you cant treat them on outpatient? In this 50 minute lecture, a common sense approach to safe sedation will be reviewed, with a focus on reversible multimodal protocols in reptile species commonly presented in companion animal practice.
Learning Objectives:
Provide the preferred optimum temperature zone for reptile patients and understand why this is required for appropriate drug metabolism.
Describe the metabolism effects of the renal and hepatic portal system and why injections in the front half of the animal are favored in reptile clinical medicine.
Choose from several sedation protocols to maximize safe handling and diagnostic sample acquisition.
