Anesthesiology
Farm Animal Hospital
Farm Animal Hospital
The Anesthesia service offers 24-hour a day support to cattle, swine, and farm animal patients requiring anesthesia and pain management at the Purdue University Farm Animal Hospital.
Besides clinical teaching, our boarded anesthesiologists have special interests including anesthesia and anesthetic recovery for farm animal patients
Our team includes clinicians, residents, and veterinary nurses that specialize in anesthetic care.
The anesthesia and pain management team will review each patient’s medical records, perform a physical examination and plan a specific anesthetic and pain management plan to meet the patient's needs. We provide injectable and/or inhalant general anesthesia, regional anesthesia (example - epidurals) and local anesthesia (example - peripheral nerve blocks). We utilize monitoring equipment with ECG, invasive and non-invasive blood pressure, pulse oximetry, capnometry, temperature, oxygen measurement and agent gas detection capabilities. State of the art anesthesia machines and ventilators are available .