Determination of the sevoflurane sparing effect of methadone in cats

A systematic review of sevoflurane and isoflurane minimum alveolar concentration in domestic cats

“…; Ferreira et al. ), and findings for both anesthetic inhalants were recorded in two of the studies (Ide et al. ; Barter et al.…”

“…; Ferreira et al. , ; Zwijnenberg et al. ), in seven, subjects were allowed to breathe spontaneously (Steffey & Howland ; Ide et al.…”

“…; Ferreira et al. ; Escobar et al. ), and, in three studies, the type of breathing system used was not reported (Drummond et al.…”

“…In only one sevoflurane study were cats between the ages of 1–2 years used (Ferreira et al. ). That study reported a high sevoflurane MAC of 3.18 ± 0.06%.…”

Partial intravenous anaesthesia in the horse: a review of intravenous agents used to supplement equine inhalation anaesthesia. Part 2: opioids and alpha-2 adrenoceptor agonists

“…(Murphy & Hug 1982;Lake et al 1985;Steffey et al 1994). Apart from morphine, other synthetic opioids such as pethidine (Steffey et al 1977), butorphanol (Murphy & Hug 1982), methadone (Credie et al 2010;Ferreira et al 2011), fentanyl (Moon et al 1995;Hellyer et al 2001;Reilly et al 2013), alfentanil (Lake et al 1985;Hall et al 1987;Ilkiw et al 1997), remifentanil (Allweiler et al 2007Ferreira et al 2009) or sufentanil (Polis et al 2004) have been used widely systemically in veterinary medicine for the same purpose.…”