General anaesthesia is the controlled and reversible loss of consciousness, which is helpful in ruminants for many surgical procedures that warrant effective control of pain and movement. General anaesthesia is indicated when the demands of technical and anatomical aspects of surgical procedure exceed the capabilities of sedative drugs and local analgesia. Moreover, the patient co-operation and...

Satisfactory as local anaesthesia can be, when the anaesthetic limits are trespassed by the operator, the distress produced may have more far-reaching effects than is generally supposed. Success d"pends as much upon a knowledge of the regional nerve supply as upon an appreciation of the extent to which it can be effectively blocked. A spinal subarachnoid block up to the level of the fourth or f...

Patients are normally thought to have recovered from general anaesthesia within a few hours after day-case surgery. Previous recovery studies using objective psychometric tests showed a return to baseline values within this period. Nevertheless, patients are advised about what activities they should not undertake in the subsequent 24 h because it is feared that the residual anaesthetic effects ...