General anesthesia in albino python (Python molurus bivittatus): Case Report
General anesthesia in albino python (Python molurus bivittatus): Case Report
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https://doi.org/10.51473/rcmos.v1i1.2026.2207Keywords:
Anesthetics, Exotics, Reptilians, AnalgesicsAbstract
Veterinary medicine, in its breadth of areas of activity, also includes a wide variety of species addressed. In one of the possible classifications, there are domestic animals, exotic and wild animals, and even exotic and wild animals that are found in zoological parks. An albino python, male, approximately 23 years old, weighing 27.5 kg, and measuring 5.22 m in length, from the Parque Dois Irmãos Zoo, showing an increase in volume in the right mental region with evolution of six months, after therapeutic treatment using non-steroidal and steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, she was referred for a surgical and anesthetic procedure to remove the neoformation. Often, the anesthetic and analgesic protocols, as well as the techniques used and reactions expected in the anesthesia of reptilians come from events visualized and already well studied and described in domestic animals, although this extrapolation is difficult, taking into account all the differences between these classes. . As a result, the chances of prolonged recovery and complications and failures in snake anesthesia are much greater than if everything had been properly thought out and prepared for these species. The anesthetic protocol described was safe and effective.
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