Horsetalk.co.nz Study to cast light on risks of general anaesthesia and standing sedation in horses
Horses are 10 times more likely to die from anaesthesia than the likes of cats and dogs. Researchers, in a worldwide initiative, are gathering data that can be used to help lower the risk.
Veterinary staff who specialise in anaesthesia and analgesia at Scotland’s Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies are leading the study, dubbed the Confidential Enquiry into Perioperative Equine Fatalities (CEPEF4). Its focus is equine mortality associated with general anaesthesia and standing sedation.
Anaesthetists and equine clinicians around the world are being invited to participate through an online questionnaire, through which they can provide information on horses undergoing general anaesthesia and standing sedation.
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An enquiry in 2002 found that horses are more likely to die under anaesthetic than cats and dogs. Anaesthetic drugs and procedures have advanced since then, and a new study is aiming to assess if mortality around the time of operation has increased or reduced.
In 2002, the Confidential Enquiry into Perioperative Equine Fatalities (CEPEF), found the risk of death in horses (up to 7 days after anaesthesia) to be about 1 in 100, higher than in dogs and cats (about 1 in 1000). The perioperative mortality rate in humans, for comparison, is one in 10,000.
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