What does a General Anaesthetic Involve?
In most cases, we use Isoflurane to maintain anaesthesia. This is a form of gaseous anaesthesia, and is one of the safest around. In order to use this, we have to give the animal an injection into their vein to make them sleepy enough to be able to put a tube into their trachea, the opening to the lungs. The animal is then connected to the aneasthetic machine via this tube. The anaesthetic is carefully controlled by a mixture of oxygen and the isoflurane gas. It means that they wake up smoothly and quickly. However, all anaesthetics do carry a risk, and this is re-itterated to you at the time of admission.
