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Volume 28 (2): 90-97, 2024.
Anesthesia by ketamine-xylazine-diazepam with ketamine-xylazine-midazolamin tortoises (Testudo horsfieldi).
Amin
Bigham-Sadegh
Department of Surgery and Radiology, Faculty of
Veterinary Medicine, Shahreh-kord University, Shahreh-kord Iran.
ABSTRACT
Bigham-Sadegh S.,
Anesthesia by ketamine-xylazine-diazepam with
ketamine-xylazine-midazolam in tortoises (Testudo horsfieldii).
Onl J Vet Res., 28 (2): 90-97, 2024. Author reports anaesthesia
by intramuscular midazolam-diazepam with ketamine-xylazine
in 3 males and females tortoises weighing 1.09 ± 0.34 kg. Tortoises received
30mg/kg ketamine -xylazine with 0.2mg/kg diazepam or
1.0mg/kg midazolam intramuscularly. Onset was 14% sooner (p=0.03) in those
given ketamine-xylazine with diazepam (26.6±6.5
minutes) compared with ketamine-xylazine with
midazolam (30.8±5.4 minutes) whereas ketamine-xylazine
with midazolam (141.2±17.2 minutes) induced 51% longer (p=0.0001) anesthesia
compared with ketamine-xylazine plus diazepam
(68.8±16 minutes). All tortoises were calm during the period of recovery. No
signs of excitement or myoclonic activity were seen in tortoises in our study.
Recovery in all tortoises was uneventful. We find that blood sampling, biopsy
specimens and surgical procedures are suitable by ketamine-xylazine
with diazepam or midazolam anaesthesia for tortoises.
Key words: Ketamine, Xylazine,
Diazepam, Midazolam, Tortoises.
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