Anesthesia of Small Animal Patients with Cardiovascular Disease: Current Approaches

Course Details

This lecture has been RACE Approved for 1 CE hour for veterinarians and veterinary technicians.

Learning Objectives: How to use pre-operative evaluation to help determine the severity of the underlying disease Understanding the mechanism of action of commonly used cardiac medications and how they may affect management of the patient during the anesthetic period Recognition that cardiac patients are managed differently depending on the underlying disease process, including choice of anesthetic agents, fluid therapy, and use of pressors and inotropes