Kristen Cooley, BA, CVT, VTS (Anesthesia & Analgesia), VCC

Veterinary medicine is moving toward a proactive approach

Pre-planning and basic diagnostics can take the stress out of anesthetizing cats with kidney problems in your veterinary practice.

Kristen Cooley, BA, CVT, VTS (anesthesia & analgesia) highlights the considerations to make when putting a diabetic patient under anesthesia.

Veterinary professionals band together to help hundreds of street dogs in Ecuador in need of care.

Monitoring temperature in anesthetized patients on top of everything else you have to do might send your stress through the roof. But with these helpful tips, you wont have to sweat it.

Whether zombies are hot on your trail or youre just trying to make it through another busy day at your veterinary practice, heres a quick look at the monitoring equipment weve got on the brain.

A fight-or-flight response can leave convalescent pets in the lurch

Pain is a complex sensory and emotional experience that can be associated with actual or potential tissue damage.

The word anesthesia means without sensation-–our goal is to provide unconsciousness, amnesia, analgesia and muscle relaxation for a variety of procedures both invasive and non-invasive.

There is no single best way to anesthetize dogs and cats, making it imperative to be familiar with a variety of different anesthetic drugs and techniques.

The components of an anesthesia machine work together to deliver controlled amounts of oxygen and anesthetic gas.

Blood gas analysis gives us information about a patient's acid-base status and pulmonary function.

Anesthesia monitors are only as good as the people who use them. It is imperative to know what is normal so that you can recognize when something is outside of normal.