Effect of tepoxalin on renal function and hepatic enzymes in dogs exposed to hypotension with isoflurane.

Objective: To evaluate the possible renal and hepatic toxicity of tepoxalin in dogs exposed to hypotension during isoflurane anesthesia.

Study Design: Prospective, randomized experimental study.

Animals: Twenty adult mixed-breed dogs, weighing 18.

Evaluation of analgesic and physiologic effects of epidural morphine administered at a thoracic or lumbar level in dogs undergoing thoracotomy.

Objective: To evaluate the analgesic and physiological effects of epidural morphine administered at the sixth and seventh lumbar or the fifth and sixth thoracic vertebrae in dogs undergoing thoracotomy.

Study Design: Prospective, randomized, blinded trial.

Animals: Fourteen mixed-breed dogs, weighing 8.

Total intravenous anesthesia with propofol and S(+)-ketamine in rabbits.

Objective: To evaluate total intravenous anesthesia with propofol alone or in combination with S(+)-ketamine in rabbits undergoing surgery.

Study Design: Prospective, randomized, blinded trial.

Animals: Nine 6-month-old New Zealand white rabbits, weighing 2.