Peer-reviewed veterinary case report
Abnormal motor activity during anaesthesia in a dog: a case report.
- Journal:
- Acta veterinaria Scandinavica
- Year:
- 2010
- Authors:
- Lervik, Andreas et al.
- Affiliation:
- Department of Companion Animal Clinical Sciences
- Species:
- dog
Plain-English summary
A four-year-old male Bernese mountain dog experienced convulsions while under anesthesia for a procedure. This happened after he was given a mix of medications, including acepromazine, methadone, propofol, and ketamine, but he had never had seizures before. Since multiple drugs were used, it’s hard to pinpoint which one might have caused the seizures. This case highlights that seizures during anesthesia, while rare, can happen and are not well understood in veterinary medicine.
Abstract
Seizures or convulsions that occur during anaesthesia in veterinary patients are infrequently reported in the literature. Consequently, the incidence of such events is unknown. Several drugs commonly used in clinical veterinary anaesthesia have been shown to induce epileptiform activity in both human clinical patients and experimental candidates. The present case report describes convulsions in a four-year old male Bernese mountain dog during maintenance of anaesthesia with isoflurane after premedication with acepromazine and methadone followed by co-induction with propofol and ketamine. The dog had no history of previous convulsions. The use of several sedative and anaesthetic drugs makes it difficult to find one single causative pharmaceutical.
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