Epidural xylazine analgesia in some domesticated animals

ABSTRACT

Caudal epidural analgesia was successfully conducted in domesticated animals using xylazine hydrochloride in a dose of 0.1 -0.15 mg/kg body weight. It provided good analgesia, posterior muscle slackening and variable degree of surgical interferences and obstetrical manipulations in the posterior regions were performed under the influence of caudal epidural xylazine analgesis. Clinical manifestations were fully described and no complications were observed