Anaesthesia in cattle (II)
Regional and local analgesia
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.21423/bovine-vol1995no29p13-21Keywords:
anaesthesia, analgesics, castration, conduction anaesthesia, head, injectable anaesthetics, laparotomy, lidocaine, limbs, mammary glands, methodology, reviewsAbstract
Whilst a number of techniques of regional or local analgesia have been described in cattle many years ago, there are a number of others which have only been described recently or have been "rediscovered" and/or modified. The well tried techniques include cornual nerve block, paravertebral nerve block, epidural analgesia and the Raker technique for analgesia of the distal limbs.
It is considered essential to ensure that cattle are adequately sedated and restrained for the application of local analgesic techniques and for the period when surgery is being carried out. This is to prevent damage or injury to the surgeon, assistant and/or animal and to ensure that whilst perhaps not totally aseptic, the surgery is carried out in as clean a manner as possible. The actual techniques of sedation have been described in the earlier paper.
