Contribution to the study of the intravenous anesthesia in the dog, by the "Pentobarbital sodium" (Nembutal)

Abstract

The AA. study the intravenous general anesthesia by the pentobarbital (nembutal) in the dog. Utilising the pharmaceutical product employed in human medicine as sedative and presented in pulvules for oral use. They describe a simple process to make it profitable to intravenous administration. A 3 per cent aqueous solution of the medicament is administered proporcional to the animal body weight (1cm3 per kilogram.) Among over fifty studied cases they present detailed data of eleven ones, 3 of them with pre-anesthesia (atropomorphine) and establish the main clinical signs and the security margin of the anesthetic.