i need 15 minutes of the animal in anesthetic condition prescribed dose of ketamine is -80 mg/kg and for xylazine 10 mg/kg, why we can not use either ketamine or xylazine, plz let me know ?
because xylasine provide sedation and analgesia and ketamine itself not- it just make immobilistion of the muscles. You may use just xelasine by ruminants, if you will perforem short and simple procedure (like decornuation for example) but not ketamine alone
To get to the chirurgic tolerance stadium III for anesthesia only one of those will not fulfill the criteria - you need to combine sedation with analgesia, like Małgorzata states before.
Hello Alok, In addition to all this information, the recovery of an animal with this combination is very smooth as compared to other anaesthetics and/or their per se use.
I anaesthetize human patients. This can be accomplished with ketamine as a sole agent. It is a potent analgesic, also in subhypnotic doses. But I agree with Dr. Segura that an alpha-2 agonist like Xylazine may help preventing rigidity.