Anesthetic risk and perioperative mortality in bitches with pyometra
International Journal of Development Research
Anesthetic risk and perioperative mortality in bitches with pyometra
Received 27th September, 2021; Received in revised form 11th October, 2021; Accepted 29th November, 2021; Published online 28th December, 2021
Copyright © 2021, Ana Maria Quessada. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
In the present study, we aimed to evaluate the classification proposed by the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) of bitches with pyometra. The most of the bitches in the current study (96.87%, 31/32) were classified as ASA IV, receiving the emergency classifier (E), because pyometra is considered an emergency disease. Only one bitch was classified as ASA V E. There were three deaths, two in ASA IV patients and one in ASA V patient, probably related to the severity of the disease. In this way, the mortality rate reached 9.375%.
