This course provides an overview of the stages and planes of anaesthesia in veterinary patients. It explains how to assess anaesthetic depth using reflexes, eye position, heart rate, respiration and blood pressure, and helps learners recognise when a patient is too light, at a suitable surgical plane, or becoming dangerously deep.

Learning Outcomes:

• Explain why monitoring anaesthetic depth is important for patient safety.
• Identify key reflexes used to assess anaesthetic depth.
• Recognise changes in eye position, pupil size, heart rate, respiration and blood pressure during anaesthesia.
• Describe the four stages of anaesthesia.
• Explain the four planes within stage three anaesthesia.
• Identify signs that a patient may be too light or too deep under anaesthesia.

Features:

• You will have access as part of an active¬†ProSkills Course Subscription
• You have access to the course for 365 days with individual course purchase
• Complete quiz activities to attain your certificate of achievement

Course Content:

• Video with quiz questions.
• Certificate of Achievement.