Saturday, September 18, 2010

BLM to continue castrating wild horses using disputed anesthesia protocol - National Equine Advocacy | Examiner.com

BLM to continue castrating wild horses using disputed anesthesia protocol - National Equine Advocacy | Examiner.com

It's official. The BLM intends to disregard HSUS veterinarian Dr. Eric Davis's "serious concerns" about the use of the paralytic drug, succinycholine, as an anesthesia agent during wild horse castrations. It doesn't matter that succinylcholine has already caused the deaths of several geldings castrated by Dr. Richard Sanford at the Broken Arrow holding facility in Fallon, Nevada. And apparently, it doesn't matter that the drug routinely causes potentially fatal respiratory difficulties that are best addressed by pressurized oxygen equipment that is not even available at BLM facilities.

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