Lecture 5 Preanesthetic Medications and Induction Agents Part 1 Flashcards
What are Factors To Consider When Selecting A Preanesthetic Medication
- Species
- Health status of the patient
- Pain – existing and expected
- Temperament
- Duration of procedure
- Anticipated side effects of drugs administered
What are the 3 types of analgesics for preanesthetics
- Opioids
- Dissociatives
- NSAIDS
What are the 2 types of anticholinergic drugs used in preanesthetic
- Atropine
- Glycopyrrolate
What are the 3 types of Neuroleptics, Tranquilizer – Sedative, Amnesic medications for preanesthetics
- Phenothiazines
- Alpha-2 agonists
- Benzodiazepines
Should animals be sedated without preanesthetics?
“No patient should ever be anesthetized without the benefit of preanesthetic medications.”
What are advantages of using preanesthetics
- Chemical restraint => ↓ patient & staff stress, easier patient handling for IV catheterization
- ↓ stress, ↓ catecholamines => ↓ risk of arrhythmias
- ↓ induction & inhalant anesthetic doses => ↓ dose dependent CV/resp depression
- Pre-emptive analgesia
What are disadvantages of using preanesthetics
- Bradycardia – alpha-2 agonists, opioids
- Hypotension – acepromazine
- Excitement/dysphoria – opioids, benzodiazepines
What are the Mu-, kappa agonists used as preanesthetics
- Hydromorphone
- Fentanyl
- Morphine
- Methadone
- Oxymorphone
What is a Mixed agonist(kappa)/antagonist (Mu) used as a preanesthetic
Butorphanol
What is the Partial mu agonist used as a preanesthetic
Buprenorphine
What are the reversal drugs used for opoid analgesics
- naloxone
- naltrexone
- What type of analgesia do Opioids cause
- How much sedation (mild, moderate, heavy)?
- Analgesia – somatic & visceral
- Mild sedation when used alone (normal/healthy patients)
- Combined with sedative/tranquilizer
What are the mild cardiovascular effects of opoids
- ↓ HR due to ↑ vagal tone => anticholinergic
- Little/no effect on vasculature (histamine release)
- Little/no effect on cardiac contractility
- What do opoids do to the MAC of inhalant?
- Are they respiratory stimulants or depressents
- ↓ MAC of inhalant** (agonist >> partial or agonist/antag.)
- respiratory depression
- A full opoid agonist stimulates which receptors?
- Does the dose change its analgesic effect?
- Mu (u) and Kappa (K) receptors
- increased dose increases analgesic effect
- How do agnoist-antagonist opoids bind to their receptors?
- Does it provide more or less analgesia compared to a full agonist?
- What happens if you use it with an agonist opoid?
- Will be an agonist for one receptor and antagonist for the other
- ex- butorphanol is an agonist at K receptors and antagonist at u receptors
- Decreased analgesia vs full agonists
- Will increase the dose of full agonist required to achive maximal analgesic effects
- How do partial mu agonists bind to its receptor?
- Does it provide more or less analgesia compared to a full agonist?
- What happens if you use it with a full agonist?
- will only bind to mu receptors
- produces a reduced maximal analgesic effect compared with a full agonist
- a large dose of partial agonist will block the receptor actions of a full agonist, moving its dose-response curve to the right and depressing its maximal analgesic effect
Regarding Butorphanol:
- Do you get sedation with it?
- Do you get Analgesia?
- Is there a ‘ceiling effect’
- Mild sedation
- Sedation lasts 1-2 hours, analgesia ~90min.
- analgesia
- There is a ‘Ceiling effect’
- compared to mu agonists, how does butorphanol compare with heart effects?
- Respiratory?
- Analgesia?
- Nausea?
Compared to mu agonists, LESS:
- Bradycardia
- Respiratory depression
- Panting (seen at higher doses)
- Analgesia, MAC sparing
- Nausea, no vomiting
How do we use butorphanol in dogs and cats?
- Alone (dogs) or with sedative/tranquilizer
- Non- or mildly painful procedures
- Imaging, minor surgical procedure
- Pre-med to avoid vomiting, full agonist to follow