Karen J. Blissitt

TL;DR: Small animal anaesthesia appears to be increasingly safe, and greater patient care in the postoperative period could reduce fatalities.

TL;DR: The results indicate that lithium dilution is a suitable method for measuring cardiac output in horses as well as being accurate, it avoids the need for pulmonary artery catheterization and is quick and safe to use.

TL;DR: Morphine doses of 100-170 micro g kg-1 do not increase the risk of problems when used to provide perioperative analgesia in horses anaesthetized with romifidine, ketamine, diazepam and halothane.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors described the post mortem findings in cases of sudden death associated with exercise in 268 Thoroughbred racehorses and compared between the different populations, finding that the lesions are often not specific for the cause of death and determination of the cause is therefore affected by interpretation by the individual pathologist.

TL;DR: Recoveries from anaesthesia in the morphine recipients were characterized by fewer attempts to attain sternal recumbency and standing, and a shorter time from the first recovery movement to the time of standing.