Morbidity and mortality associated with general anaesthesia in domestic ruminants and camelids.

Morbidity and mortality associated with general anaesthesia is and has been intensively investigated in most domestic species ( Johnston et al., 2002 Johnston G.M. Eastment J.K. Wood J. et al. The confidential enquiry into perioperative equine fatalities (CEPEF): mortality results of Phases 1 and 2. Vet Anaesth Analg. 2002; 29: 159-170https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1467-2995.2002.00106.x Abstract Full Text Full Text PDF PubMed Scopus (410) Google Scholar ; Brodbelt et al., 2008 Brodbelt D.C. Blissitt K.J. Hammond R.A. et al. The risk of death: the confidential enquiry into perioperative small animal fatalities. Vet Anaesth Analg. 2008; 35: 365-373https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-2995.2008.00397.x Abstract Full Text Full Text PDF PubMed Scopus (369) Google Scholar ; Gozalo-Marcilla et al., 2021 Gozalo-Marcilla M. Bettschart-Wolfensberger R. Johnston M. et al. Data Collection for the Fourth Multicentre Confidential Enquiry into Perioperative Equine Fatalities (CEPEF4) Study: New Technology and Preliminary Results. Animals. 2021; 11: 2549https://doi.org/10.3390/ani11092549 Crossref Scopus (9) Google Scholar ; Shoop-Worrall et al., 2022 Shoop-Worrall S.J. O'Neill D.G. Viscasillas J. et al. Mortality related to general anaesthesia and sedation in dogs under UK primary veterinary care. Vet Anaesth Analg. 2022; 49: 433-442https://doi.org/10.1016/j.vaa.2022.03.006 Abstract Full Text Full Text PDF PubMed Scopus (3) Google Scholar ). However, large multicentre studies investigating morbidity and mortality associated with general anaesthesia of domestic ruminants and camelids, i.e., cattle, sheep, goats, alpacas and llamas, are missing.