Evaluation of protocols of anesthetic eto

Abstract

The administration of anesthetics is crucial when considering performing clinical examinations and even carry out treatments in medicine of reptiles. Accordingly, the objective was to test different protocols of etomidate in anesthetic Phrynops geoffroanus species. To this end, the turtles were divided into groups of ten and anesthetized with etomidate different protocols: group 1 (G1) received 1.0 mg / kg IV, group 2 (G2) received 1.5 mg / kg IV group 3 (G3) received 3.0 mg / kg IV. The parameters were observed in intervals of 5, 10, 20, 30, 45, 60, 90, 120, 150, 180 minutes and that time zero was considered the time of drug administration. The parameters were assessed: mobility, relaxation, handling, response to stimulus in the thoracic and pelvic and heart rate. For this investigation were assigned scores of 1, 2 and 3 being low, medium and high response to stimuli respectively. The anesthetized animals were considered when their scores totaled 11. The results were evaluated using ANOVA (BANZATTO; KRONKA, 1995) and Tukey's test at 5% probability and Friedman. Thus observed that etomidate at a dose of 1.0 mg/Kg and 1.5 mg/Kg are recommended for situations requiring satisfactory sedation in Phrynops geoffoanu as clinical procedures and collection of biological sample at optimum temperature.