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- Title
HAEMATOLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS FOLLOWING XYLAZINE-KETAMINE ANAESTHESIA IN TEN CAPTIVE SPOTTED DEER (Axis axis) STAGS.
- Authors
Johns, Joju; Chandy, George; Sooryadas S.; Venugopal, Syam K.; Ajithkumar S.; Dinesh P. T.; Jacob Alexander
- Abstract
The study was conducted in ten adult male Spotted Deer maintained at Zoological Gardens, Thiruvananthapuram, which underwent vasectomy under xylazine and ketamine anaesthesia. Xylazine and ketamine were administrated at the rate of 3 mglkg body weight and 2 mglkg body weight respectively by darting. Venous blood samples were collected just prior to reversal of anaesthesia using yohimbine at the rate of 0.3 mglkg body weight, half intravenously and the other half intramuscularly and were subjected to haematological analysis. The mean haemoglobin concentration, volume of packed red cells and total erythrocyte count were 12.38±0.68 g/dL, 36.30±1.96 % and 9.75±0.60x 106/ μL respectively. The mean total leucocyte count was 5.00±0.53x 103/ μL and the counts of neutrophil, lymphocyte, monocyte, basophil and eosinophil were 55.80±4.02 %, 35.90±3.93 %, 6.00±0.82 %, 0.30±0.15% and 1.00±0.15% respectively.
- Subjects
AXIS axis; XYLAZINE; KETAMINE; ANIMAL anesthesia; YOHIMBINE; LEUCOCYTES; NEUTROPHILS; LYMPHOCYTES
- Publication
Journal of Indian Veterinary Association, 2014, Vol 12, Issue 1, p70
- ISSN
0975-5195
- Publication type
Article