This skill will require you to assist with anesthesia. Upon completion of this skill, you will be able to administer anesthesia under supervision, evaluate patient status, follow the doctor's dosage instructions, calculate anesthetic medications and administer them. You will also be able apply your knowledge and understand possible anesthetic reactions and recognize the signs of a complication.
Tips for materials that need to be submitted:
Student description on how you properly organized the medical records, consent forms, and patient data for all 3 of your patients.
You need to discuss the forms that you had to gather/ prepare
You need to discuss how you prepared and organized any forms you went over with the owner at patient check in. You also want to discuss any patient data that was collected prior to anesthesia and how it was organized into the patient record
Log book of preoperative medications you gave for your 3 patients. Information that needs to be included:
Patient signalment
Weight of the animal
Step by step calculation
How much of the drug you actually administered
The route it was given
An indication for the use of the drug