Surgeon experience affects perioperative pain in cats undergoing elective ovariohysterectomy: a randomized clinical trial.

Objective: This study aimed to compare the outcomes between surgeries performed by either experienced or inexperienced surgeons by assessing intraoperative nociception and perioperative analgesia.

Methods: 16 healthy, client-owned female cats were randomly allocated into 2 groups of 8: one undergoing surgery by an experienced surgeon (GES group) and the other by inexperienced surgeons (GIS group). Both groups received IM premedication with acepromazine (0.

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.