Winter semester.

Lectures (2 hrs)

1/ Introduction to veterinary surgery.

Animal restrain.

Antisepsis asepsis (desinfection, sterilization)

- Fundamentals of surgical facilities and equipment

- Preparation of surgical hall, instruments, operating team

2/ Examination of surgical patient before surgical procedure. Injections, i.v. cannulation

and infusion.

3/ Introduction to anaesteziology – basic conceptions.

Local anesethics and technics (superficial, infiltration, regional, vegetal blocades).

Local anaesthesia in dogs and cats – superficial, infiltration, regional.

4/ Local anaesthesia in horses, cattle, small ruminants and swine – regional

peripheral /central, superficial - intraarticular.

5/ Preanesthetic medicaments and anesthetics used in small animals.

6/ General injection anaesthesia and prepatations. Injection anesthetics – their classification

and properties.

General injection anaesthesia recommended combinations – horses, cattle, sheep, swine.

7/ General injection anaesthesia.

Recommended combinations for small mammals, birds, reptiles, ZOO animals, fishes,

Antidots.

Criterias for general anaesthesia in pediatric and geriatric pacients.

8/ Inhalation anaesthesia:

General principles

- Inhalation machines

- Types of inhalation machines

Inhalation anesthetics

9/ Characteristics of anaesthesia in the animals with diseased respiratory,

kardiovascular, renal and hepatal systems.

10/Anaesthetic toxicity, oxygen toxicity and drug interaction. Forced lung ventilation.

Ventilation of patient during anaesthesia and devices for assisted breathing.

11/ Monitoring of patients during anaesthesia. Acid-base equilibrium and blood gasses

during general anaesthesia.

12/ Solving critical stages of respiratory and cardiovascular

systems during general anaesthesia. Euthanasia.

13/ Fluid, electrolyt and acid-base therapy in surgical patients. Monitoring

of surgical patient. Nutritional support in inpatients.

Lessons: (2 hours)

1/ Farm animal restrain (horse, cattle, swine, sheep). Basics of safety.

2/ Antisepsis, asepsis

- instrument and material sterilization,

- preparation of surgical field

- preparation of operating field

Small animal restraint.

3/ Injections and infusions (intramuscular, intravenous, intraartikulr, intraperitoneal,

intrapleural, subconjunctival, epidural) biopsy

4/ Local anaesthesia superficial, infiltration, regional in small animalls

(Bier bloc, intraarticular, plexus brachialis, intercostal, intrapleural, circular blok,

maxilar, mandibular, auriculopalpebral, epidural)

5/ Head and limb regional anaesthesia in horses (infraorbital, frontal, auriculopalpebral,

mental, mandibular, epidural, diagnostic regional aanesthesia), intraarticular.

6/ Regional head and limb anaesthesia in cattle and small ruminants –

( cornual branch. of zygomatic n., epidural, paravertebral, L – block, regional limb

anaesthesia - coronet, fetlock level) Intraarticular anaesthesia in large animals (cofin,

podotrochlear, pastern, fetlock, digital flexor tendon sheath, radiocarpal intercarpal, cunea

bursa, tarsometatarsal, intertarsal, tibiotarsal).

7-9/ Injection general anaesthesia in dogs and cats (common combinations of i.m. and i.v.

anaesthesiai) Sedation, shortly acting anaesthetics, guidance and patient monitoring,

solving of possible complications, recovery – clinic intership.

10-13/ Inhalation anaesthesia in small animals, patient monitoring, evaluation, solving of possible complications, recovery – clinic intership.

Essentials of Small Animal Anesthesia and Analgesia ]

John C. Thurmon, William J. Tranquilli, G. John Benson

Handbook of Veterinary Anaesthesia

William W. Muir et al. 2007

Continuous assessment:

On the practice lessons.

Final assessment:

Credit