Anesthesia and sedation guidelines with Dr Lydia Love

About this episode

Dr Lydia Love discusses the 2025 Small Animal Anesthesia and Sedation Monitoring Guidelines and how to improve care for ICU and ER patients.

“Anesthesia safety is less about picking the ‘correct’ drug combination, and more about how you take care of and stabilise the patient…” Join myself and Dr Lydia Love as we discuss the 2025 Small Animal Anesthesia and Sedation Monitoring Guidelines, specifically thinking how we can improve the care of our ICU and ER patients. We cover all sorts: hypothermia, sedation vs anesthesia, recovery, cases such as urethral obstruction and septic peritonitis, locoregional anaesthesia and plenty more! For reference The American College of Veterinary Anesthesia and Analgesia Small Animal Anesthesia and Sedation Monitoring Guidelines 2025 https://www.vaajournal.org/article/S1467-2987(25)00071-6/fulltext Coccygeal epidural with local anesthetic for catheterization and pain management in the treatment of feline urethral obstruction https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1476-4431.2010.00609.x

People in this episode

Guest: Dr Lydia Love

Topics covered

• anesthesia safety
• sedation guidelines
• ICU patient care
• ER patient care
• veterinary medicine
• hypothermia
• locoregional anesthesia

Keywords

• anesthesia
• sedation
• veterinary guidelines
• patient care
• hypothermia
• urethral obstruction
• septic peritonitis
• locoregional anesthesia

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: The American College of Veterinary Anesthesia and Analgesia

Books & works: 2025 Small Animal Anesthesia and Sedation Monitoring Guidelines, Coccygeal epidural with local anesthetic for catheterization and pain management in the treatment of feline urethral obstruction

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