There has been a lot of discussion in the past 10 years about how much fluid to deliver to a patient during general anesthesia and, even...

Your patient, Scruffy, is suspected to have pancreatitis. In addition to fluid resuscitation, you want to start her on analgesics as she...

Buprenorphine is a familar partial mu agonist opioid that is useful for acute pain management in veterinary patients. But it has an...

The short answer is: Maybe. Whenever anyone wants advice on changing up their anesthesia drug protocols, one of the first questions I ask...

Dr. Erik Hofmeister, Professor of Anesthesia at Auburn University College of Veterinary Medicine, Deputy Editor for Veterinary...

Pain or Dysphoria? By Bonnie Gatson DVM DACVAA It’s easy to envy human physicians who can ask their adult conscious patients, “How are...

In the last post, Dr. Hofmeister chemically restrained a vicious werewolf using an intramuscular combination of sedatives and anesthetic...

In this post, Dr. Erik Hofmeister discusses his approach to chemical restraint of aggressive animals. We’ve all been there. You’re at a...