"Gandalf" <g.gandalf@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> My 12 1/2 year old cat needs a dental cleaning; she has gingivitis, as
> well as some tartar build up.
>
> Of course I'm worried about the anesthetic; she had a dental cleaning 4
> years ago. But there's a big difference between an 8 year, and a 12 year
> old cat
>
> I had saved a long thread on anesthetic agents, but I LOST ALL of my
> ROCH+B threads that I have been saving ('locked threads')for 7 or 8
> years.
>
> So instead of just being able to go and read the information I had
> carefully saved for just this day, I am asking for advice.
>
> I had the vet use isoflurane the last time my cat needed dental
> cleaning.
>
> Is there anything that might be safer for my older cat?
>
That's the best there is.
> I have a pretty low opinion of ketamine, BTW. It's a hallucinogen; when
> cats wake up from it, they are often in pretty bad shape. "Whacked out"
> it the term that comes to mind. Mild mannered cats can turn into 'psycho
> attack cats'. And, they take a long time to 'come out of it'. I've seen
> this first hand, BTW, many times. I've given ketamine to cats, many,
> many times. Vets like it because it's cheap, and easy to administer.
Demand Isoflurane. They can do a sensitivity test on the cats blood
sample
before the surgery to see how it will react. Isoflurane is reversed with
pure oxygen so it is very safe.
> Any first hand advice is welcome.
I had a 16.5 year old cat anesthetized several times with Isoflurane with
no
complications.
Paul
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