Estudo comparativo de períodos de jejum pré- operatório em pacientes pediátricos através da avaliação da glicemia de cadelas submetidas a ovariossalpingohisterectomia

Abstract

Pediatric animals are differentiated patients, so the fasting established for these patients is different from that established for adult dogs. The puppies have a very low reserve of hepatic glycogen and if they undergo a prolonged fast, they are predisposed to develop hypoglycemia. The aim of the present study was to compare the effect of different periods of preoperative fasting on blood glucose, in bitches between 45 and 60 days, undergoing ovariosalpingohisterectomy. The animals were divided into two groups of ten animals each, according to the fasting period: Group G1 was fasted for four hours and group G2, fasted for eight hours. In both groups, water fasting for two hours before the surgical procedure was established. Blood samples for blood glucose assessment were collected before application of pre-anesthetic medication, right after the end of surgery and two hours after surgery. No lower than normal glycemic values ​​were found in any of the groups and at any time, so there was no significant influence of the fasting period in relation to the glycemic values ​​evaluated in this study.