The effects of butorphanol and buprenorphine on cardiovascular and neuroendocrine variables in dogs anesthetized with desflurane were studied. Thirty adult healthy, males and females, mongrel dogs were distributed in three groups denominated butorphanol group (BTG), buprenorphine group (BPG) and control group (COG). The anesthetic induction was done using propofol (8mg/kg, IV), and immediately, the dogs were intubated and submited to desflurane anaesthesia (1.5 MAC). After 30 minutes, the BTG animals received butorphanol (0.4mg/kg IM), the BPG animals buprenorphine (0.02mg/kg IM) and the COG animals saline solution at 0.9% (0.05 ml/kg IM). Heart rate; systolic, diastolic and mean arterial blood pressures; cardiac output; venous central pressure; cortisol; ACTH; noradrenalin; and glucose were measured. The measurements were recorded at 30 minutes after beginning the inhalatory anaesthesia (M0) and at 15 minutes after opioid or saline administration (M15). Also a serial measurements were carried out in 15-minute intervals after M15 (M30, M45, M60 and M75). For neuroendocrine evaluation measurements were recorded before desflurane administration (M-30), and at M0, M15 AND m45. For heart rate there were differences between M0 and M15 (129 and 111 beats/min) in BTG, and between M0 and M30 (131 and 112 beats/min), in BPG. For mean arterial blood pressure there were differences between M0 (86mmHg) and all the recorded measurements (all measurements were lower than 72mmHg), in BTG. All recorded diastolic arterial blood pressures were lower than 53mmHg and different of the recorded measure M0 (67mmHg), in BTG. For systolic arterial blood pressure there were differences between M0 and M15 and M30 (112 vs 93 and 94mmHg, respectively), in BTG. Opioids administration determined discrete reduction in cardiovascular parameters while desflurane caused alterations in neuroendocrine function, increasing plasmatic levels of glucose.
dog; anesthesia; opioids; desflurane; hormones
