30 lecture hours = 2 credits
This course serves as an introduction to veterinary anesthesia, analgesia, and peri-operative case management. It will lay the foundation for the basic principles of anesthesia and analgesia, relying on the student to review and be familiar with basic pharmacology and physiology presented in previous semesters. This course is also a prerequisite for the anesthesia lectures within the Small Animal Internal Medicine course in the third year of the curriculum, in which students will apply the knowledge learned in the introductory course to formulate specific anesthetic plans for various species and cases with pre-existing conditions or comorbidities.