Snake Sedation and Anesthesia

Daniel Almeida; Martin Kennedy; Erin Wend-Hornickle

doi:10.1016/j.cvex.2021.08.003

Snake Sedation and Anesthesia

Daniel Almeida
, Martin Kennedy
, Erin Wend-Hornickle

Veterinary Clinical Sciences

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Abstract

Snakes can be more challenging to anesthetize compared with other animals because of anatomic and physiologic differences, a wide range of patient sizes, and variable responses to anesthetic agents. Snakes have preferred optimal temperature zones, which, along with physiologic characteristics, such as the ability to shunt blood toward or away from the lungs, can have an impact on anesthesia. Injectable agents, including benzodiazepines, α 2-agonists, opioids, propofol, and alfaxalone, as well as inhalant anesthetics can be used to anesthetize snakes. Pain management must be incorporated to the anesthetic plan when performing procedures that are expected to produce nociception.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	97-112
Number of pages	16
Journal	Veterinary Clinics of North America - Exotic Animal Practice
Volume	25
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cvex.2021.08.003
State	Published - Jan 2022

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The authors would like to thank Dr Miranda Sadar for kindly providing the pictures used in this article. The authors have no commercial or financial interests to disclose and did not receive funding for this work.

Keywords

Analgesia
Anesthesia
Reptile
Sedation
Snake
Zoo animal
Zoologic companion animal
Anesthetics/adverse effects
Animals
Snakes
Anesthesia/veterinary

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