Managing medications prior to anesthesia

When patients are coming into the clinic for a procedure that requires anesthesia, there is a chance they could be on other medications. While some are safe to have in their system during anesthesia, there are some that can do more harm than good.

During this interview with dvm360 on his lecture's presented at the Fetch Kansas City Conference in Kansas City, Missouri, Gianluca Bini, DVM, MRCVS, DACVAA, explains what current guidelines say about medications and anesthesia, plus preparing your client service representatives to help communicate which drugs are safe, and which are not, with clients.

Below is a partial transcript

Gianluca Bini, DVM, MRCVS, DACVAA: So some of these patients may come in with, and this is not all of them, but some of them may come in with some drugs that may affect the RAS systems, so like benazopril and alpril and misarter and all of those, the AAHA guidelines from 2020 forestation drugs and cats recommend to discontinue those. There are reports of untreatable hypertension when these drugs were given in the morning before anesthesia. So it's really important that we pay close attention to what a patient is coming in with.