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Abstract
Anesthesia of great apes is often necessary to conduct diagnostic analysis, provide therapeutics, facilitate surgical procedures, and enable transport and translocation for conservation purposes. Due to the stress of remote delivery injection of anesthetic agents, recent studies have focused on oral delivery and/or transmucosal absorption of preanesthetic and anesthetic agents. Maintenance of the airway and provision of oxygen is an important aspect of anesthesia in great ape species. The provision of analgesia is an important aspect of the anesthesia protocol for any procedure involving painful stimuli. Opioids and nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) are often administered alone, or in combination to provide multi-modal analgesia. There is increasing conservation management of in situ great ape populations, which has resulted in the development of field anesthesia techniques for free-living great apes for the purposes of translocation, reintroduction into the wild, and clinical interventions.
| Publication type | Book chapter |
|---|---|
| Publication Subtype | Book Chapter |
| Title | Great Apes |
| DOI | 10.1002/9781118792919.ch39 |
| Year Published | 2014 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Wiley |
| Publisher location | Ames, IA |
| Contributing office(s) | National Wildlife Health Center |
| Description | 12 p. |
| Larger Work Type | Book |
| Larger Work Title | Zoo animal and wildlife immobilization and anesthesia |
| First page | 573 |
| Last page | 584 |
| Online Only (Y/N) | N |
| Additional Online Files (Y/N) | N |
| Google Analytic Metrics | Metrics page |