Twelve male dogs were divided in four experimental groups (G), which were selected according to the time of 0.9% saline fluid therapy: G1 (without saline therapy), G2 (an hour of saline therapy before receiving cisplatin), G3 (an hour of saline therapy before receiving cisplatin and one hour after) and G4 (two hours of saline therapy before receiving cisplatin and one hour after). All the animals received 70mg/m² cisplatin, via intravenous, and the chemotherapy cycles were accomplished in intervals of three weeks, in a total of three cycles. Ondansetron (0.4mg/kg) was administered via intravenous, every 8 hours, on the day of the chemotherapy and, from that, every 12 hours for two days. Methimazole (40mg/kg) was orally administered 30 minutes before the cisplatin injection and four hours after. The hematological, biochemical and urinary parameters and dosages of tiroxin and triiodotironine were evaluated every seven days until the end of the experiment. This protocol was effective and safe in the animals that stayed for a period of two or three hours receiving saline therapy, because they did not present clinical and laboratory alterations of the use of chemotherapy. The animals that did not receive saline therapy and those that received infusion of physiologic solution via IV only during one hour presented alterations that made unfeasible the use of this protocol.
dog; cisplatin; chemotherapy
