Reducing the risks

EQUINE anaesthesia and analgesia (pain control) has developed enormously during my time as a vet. It has been rewarding to learn about and use the impressive improvements in equipment, technology and medications that have appeared as advances are made. Certainly, it seems that more is being done to help the horses that we anaesthetise.

Yet, despite all efforts, vets still lose horses after anaesthesia to a range of catastrophes that would