Clinical decision support
Anesthesia dose sheet
Generate a DVMReady-branded dog/cat anesthesia sheet with dose ranges, volume ranges, reversal agents, emergency drugs, oxygen guidance, fluids, and an audit trail for the math.
Safety checks
- Clinical decision support only. Verify patient status, current references, and every vial concentration before administration.
- Do not store patient-identifying information in this browser-based tool.
- Pre-anesthetic workup should match ASA status, species, age, procedure urgency, and comorbidities.
- Airway plan: pre-oxygenate high-risk patients and prepare ET tubes, suction, laryngoscope, and emergency access.
- Use the low end of ranges for high-risk patients unless a supervising veterinarian directs otherwise.
- Equipment values are starting guidelines; adjust oxygen flow and fluids to patient response and local equipment policy.
Basis and limits
- Pre-medication and analgesia: Doses are DVMReady starting ranges cross-checked against the source dose sheet and reviewed veterinary anesthesia references. Patient-specific plans still require veterinarian review.
- Induction: Propofol is shown as a 1 mg/kg initial slow IV bolus plus 0.5 mg/kg repeat increments to effect. Alfaxalone is shown as 1-4 mg/kg slow IV to effect. Etomidate remains 1-2 mg/kg IV for selected cardiovascular-risk cases.
- MAC values: Isoflurane MAC dog 1.28%, cat 1.63%. Sevoflurane MAC dog 2.36%, cat 2.58%.
- Reversal and emergency drugs: Atipamezole, flumazenil, naloxone, atropine, epinephrine, ephedrine, and glycopyrrolate rows show vial concentration and volume range. Atipamezole uses route/species-specific sheet or label logic; follow current clinic/RECOVER protocols for CPR decisions.
- Oxygen and equipment: Circuit and oxygen-flow values are starting equipment guidelines, not a replacement for machine checks, capnography, pulse oximetry, anesthetic depth, and local policy.
- Fluids: Dog anesthesia crystalloid range 3-5 mL/kg/hr; cat range 2-4 mL/kg/hr. Bolus and shock-dose references are displayed as reassessable aliquots, not automatic hourly rates.
Formula audit trail
Calculation steps will appear here for verification.