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Welcome
to this anesthesia lecture
inserted into the Animal
Models in Biomedical
Research Training Program.
My name is Luis Antunes.
And I work at University of
Trias-os-Montes and Alto Douro.
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What are the objectives
of this lecture?
The main objective use is to
recognize why anesthesia is
important in laboratory
animal sciences,
to identify the different
the periods of anesthesia,
to understand different
anesthesia components,
to identify different groups
drugs, to identify what is the best
practice in anesthesia in laboratory
animal sciences with this lecture
divided in two parts.
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So what is general anesthesia?
General anesthesia is a
reversible intoxication process
from the central nervous system.
It is a state of unconsciousness
with loss of protective reflexes.
It is a state resulting
from the administration
of one or more agents.
So having said this,
we need to conclude
that the optimal combination for
any given animal and procedure
needs to be selected.
So it's the selection
of several drugs
that will give us the
optimal combination
for a certain procedure.
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And we need to be aware that
anesthesiologists have learned
a lot in the last 100 years.
So the evolution has been
fantastic in the human field.
And that has been translated
into animals as well.
So we need to be aware
from the new developments
to translate that to our
patients, to our animals.
