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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
11
pubmed:dateCreated
2001-11-15
pubmed:abstractText
Hypoxemia is a commonly observed complication during the chemical immobilization of wild ruminants. If severe and left untreated, it can predispose animals to arrhythmias, organ failure, and capture myopathy. The following prospective study was designed to measure the degree of hypoxemia in wapiti that were immobilized with a combination of xylazine and tiletamine-zolazepam and to assess the response to nasal oxygen therapy. Pulse oximetry and arterial blood gas analysis were used to assess the degree of hypoxemia prior to nasal insufflation of oxygen and to demonstrate any beneficial effects of this intervention. All wapiti exhibited mild to marked hypoxemia (PaO2 = 43 +/- 11.8 mmHg) prior to treatment and showed marked improvement after 5 minutes of nasal insufflation of oxygen at 10 L/min (PaO2 = 207 +/- 60 mmHg). This inexpensive, noninvasive technique has great benefit in treating clinical hypoxemia under field conditions, and we recommend that nasal insufflation of oxygen be implemented during xylazine-tiletamine-zolazepam-induced immobilization of wapiti and other wild ruminants.
pubmed:commentsCorrections
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pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Nov
pubmed:issn
0008-5286
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
42
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
861-4
pubmed:dateRevised
2009-11-18
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:11708204-Adrenergic alpha-Agonists, pubmed-meshheading:11708204-Anesthetics, Dissociative, pubmed-meshheading:11708204-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:11708204-Animals, Wild, pubmed-meshheading:11708204-Anoxia, pubmed-meshheading:11708204-Anti-Anxiety Agents, pubmed-meshheading:11708204-Benzodiazepines, pubmed-meshheading:11708204-Blood Gas Analysis, pubmed-meshheading:11708204-Deer, pubmed-meshheading:11708204-Drug Combinations, pubmed-meshheading:11708204-Female, pubmed-meshheading:11708204-Heart Rate, pubmed-meshheading:11708204-Immobilization, pubmed-meshheading:11708204-Male, pubmed-meshheading:11708204-Oxygen, pubmed-meshheading:11708204-Prospective Studies, pubmed-meshheading:11708204-Respiration, pubmed-meshheading:11708204-Tiletamine, pubmed-meshheading:11708204-Xylazine, pubmed-meshheading:11708204-Zolazepam
pubmed:year
2001
pubmed:articleTitle
Treatment of hypoxemia during xylazine-tiletamine-zolazepam immobilization of wapiti.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Small Animal Clinical Sciences, Western College of Veterinary Medicine, 52 Campus Drive, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan S7N 5B4.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article