Anaesthesia For The Dental Patient

Dental procedures can range from a quick scale and polish on a healthy dog, all the way through to multiple extractions on a geriatric cat with co-morbidities. Aside from the challenges presented when tailoring individual anaesthesia for our patients, we need to consider other challenges in dental anaesthesia such as sharing the space with the veterinary surgeon and the anaesthesia equipment, securing the airway, accidental injury from the endotracheal tube (ETT) or dental instruments, patient positioning, and pain.

In this blog, we discuss a practical approach to dental anaesthesia and then look at the range of Burtons Medical Equipment products available to help you, help your patients.

Patient assessment, including pre-medication.
Selecting a breathing system & airway management
Monitoring considerations
Locoregional anaesthesia

Anaesthesia for the Dental Patient