Animal Anesthesia

Catalog description

Animal Anesthesia introduces the principles of general and local anesthesia of small and large animals. This course provides the knowledge necessary to monitor the effects of various pre -intra- and post-operative anesthetic agents to safely assist in all a nesthetic procedures. The focus will be to effectively manage the patient through all phases of anesthesia. This course includes basic properties and actions of various types of anesthetic protocols and anesthetic agents, administration of drugs including the recognition, treatment and prevention of drug emergencies. Students will become familiar with OSHA rules and regulations, maintaining controlled substance logs and anesthetic equipment, patient monitoring, CPCR, and post-anesthetic client education. Prerequisite: The student must have passed VTA220 before taking this class.