ClinQuiz: Implementing the American Animal Hospital
Association's Anesthesia Guidelines (Sponsored by Abbott Animal
Health) Click here to view a two-minute video that features Dr.
Ralph Harvey introducing the benefits of the AAHA Anesthesia
Guidelines. You need to anesthetize a 14-year-old mixed-breed
dog for a dental examination and cleaning, with the expectation
that it will require dental extractions. Your patient is bright,
alert, and sedentary; has a calm temperament; and is in good
body condition at an appropriate body weight. The dog has a
grade 3/6 left apical holosystolic heart murmur. The dog has no
signs of heart failure, has no other known medical conditions,
and is receiving routine parasite preventives. The results of a
preoperative complete blood count and a serum chemistry profile
are within normal limits. The client declines thoracic
radiography and further cardiac evaluation. What are the chief
anesthetic management concerns (if any) for this dog? A.
Advanced age, cardiac disease, and analge