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

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

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

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

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

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