Article Outline

• Introduction
• Patient evaluation
• • History
  • Physical examination
  • Diagnostic tests
  • Impact of disease
  • • Vaccination
  • Handling
• Sedation and analgesia
• • Agents
  • • Acepromazine
    • α₂-Agonist sedatives
    • Benzodiazepines
    • Opioids
    • • Transdermal (TD) fentanyl
      • Side effects of opioid administration
    • Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory agents
• Controversial issues
• • Evaluation of pain
  • Ovariohysterectomy, castration
  • • Feral cats
  • Regional nerve blocks
  • Euthanasia
• General anaesthesia
• • Preanaesthetic preparation
  • Premedication
  • • • Sedatives and analgesics
      • Anticholinergic agents
  • Intravenous injection
  • Endotracheal intubation
  • Injectable anaesthetic agents
  • • Thiopental
    • Methohexital
    • Pentobarbital
    • Propofol
    • Alfaxalone
    • Etomidate
    • Ketamine
    • Tiletamine
    • Total intravenous anaesthesia (TIVA)
  • Inhalation anaesthesia
  • • Administration of inhalation agents
    • Adjunct agents
    • Neuromuscular blockade
• Monitoring and management
• • Ventilation
  • Cardiovascular system
  • Temperature
  • Recovery from anaesthesia
• Local analgesia
• • • Brachial plexus nerve block
    • Dental nerve blocks
    • Digital nerve blocks
    • Epidural analgesia
    • Peroneal and tibial nerve block
    • Sciatic nerve block
    • Topical or transdermal
• References