Publications by authors named "Mauricio L Lepiz"
Introduction: This study evaluated a multimodal, simulation-based course in veterinary anesthesia integrated into an existing veterinary curriculum.
Methods: A simulation-based, multimodal training course in clinical anesthesia was evaluated using outcomes from multiple levels of the Kirkpatrick Model of Training Evaluation. Cognitive and affective outcomes were evaluated before and after instruction.
Objective: To compare analgesic efficacy and fetal effects between transdermal administration of fentanyl and IM administration of buprenorphine in pregnant sheep.
Animals: 12 healthy pregnant ewes.
Procedures: Before study initiation, each ewe was confirmed pregnant with a single fetus between 113 and 117 days of gestation.
Alfaxalone is a neurosteroid anesthetic that acts on gamma-aminobutyric acid alpha-receptors. The objective of this study was to evaluate the clinical safety and efficacy of alfaxalone (Alfaxan CD). Due to observed hyperexcitability in the subject animals when alfaxalone was the only drug used during the initial trials, premedication with midazolam was also evaluated during the final study Ten adult Quaker parrots () were assigned to 3 groups: 1) low-dose alfaxalone 10 mg/kg (LD), 2) high-dose alfaxalone 25 mg/kg (HD), and 3) alfaxalone 10 mg/ kg with midazolam 1 mg/kg premedication (AM), administered intramuscularly.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFOBJECTIVE To characterize the maternal and fetal cardiopulmonary effects of a low-dose infusion of dexmedetomidine without a loading dose in pregnant ewes anesthetized with sevoflurane. ANIMALS 11 pregnant ewes. PROCEDURES Anesthesia was induced with propofol and maintained with sevoflurane.
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- The study compares two methods for measuring cardiac output (CO) in adult horses: the Fick method and thermodilution (TD), as no prior comparisons had been documented.
- Six healthy adult horses were tested both at rest and under conditions that increased and decreased CO using dobutamine and xylazine, respectively.
- The analysis revealed a mean difference of 1.88 L/min between the two methods, with variability decreasing significantly when CO measurements were adjusted for body size to calculate the cardiac index.