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Volume 15 (4): 414-419, 2011. Redacted 2017
Ketamine-xylazine with diazepam or midazolam anesthesia in eagles (Aquila Chrysaetos)
Amin Bigham Sadegh, Zahra Shafiei, Taji Mahmoudi,
Ebrahim Shariati, Shahab Bahadoran, Abdolkarim Zamani Moghaddam.
Faculty of
Veterinary Medicine, Shahrekord University, Shahrekord, Iran.
ABSTRACT
Sadegh AB, Shafiei Z, Mahmoudi T, Shariati E, Bahadoran S, Moghaddam AZ.,
Ketamine-xylazine with diazepam or midazolam
anesthesia in Eagles (Aquila Chrysaetos), Onl J Vet Res., 15 (4):
414-419, 2011. .Seven Golden
eagles (Aquila Chrysaetos)
were given intramuscular ketamine (30mg/kg)-xylazine
plus (1.0 mg/kg), diazepam (0.2 mg/kg) or midazolam (0.2 mg/kg). The onset of anesthesia was
significantly faster but the duration was shorter following ketamine-xylazine-midazolam compared with ketamine-xylazine-diazepam. In eagles, short term blood sampling and
surgery could be performed with the described anaesthetics.
KEY WORDS: Golden eagle
anesthesia, Ketamine, Xylazine, Diazepam, Midazolam
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