Assessing Depth of Anesthesia

Welcome! Anesthesia with Intention is designed to help you build sound fundamentals in anesthesia. Spending time establishing a firm foundation will pay huge dividends in developing confidence in anesthesia decision making.

This month’s topic is Anesthesia for the Health Canine Patient.

The healthy dog is a great starting point for delving into how to establish good anesthesia habits as it familiarizes you with the various steps involved in anesthesia decision making and anesthesia delivery techniques.

The main video presentation is supplemented with additional stand alone video shorts that delve into certain important anesthesia topics in more detail and that serve as practice tips.

Please share any interesting experiences you have as you apply your new found knowledge to your delivery of anesthesia to your patients. Your comments will be helpful to your colleagues and will allow us, your mentors, to fine tune our focus during the webinar.

Be sure to note the date of this month’s live Q&A webinar, also listed in the menu. It’s a great chance to ask questions, review cases, and clarify anything that comes up during the month.

In the downloadable resources section at the top of the page — you’ll find an anesthesia record template there. We strongly encourage you to use it. It helps you more easily detect trends in changes of your patients vital signs during anesthesia.

Analyzing the anesthesia record of a patient that has thrown you curveballs or had adverse responses to anesthesia is a very powerful learning tool: We learn most when things do not go as planned – as long as we take the time to dissect what happened.

Let’s get started!