Immobilization of swift foxes with ketamine hydrochloride-xylazine hydrochloride

Journal of Wildlife Diseases

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 764-768

  Telesco, Rebecca L ^a,b   Sovada, Marsha A ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Immobilization; Ketamine hydrochloride; Swift fox; Vulpes velox; Xylaxine hydrochloride

Indexed keywords

APUS APUS; CANIDAE; VULPES; VULPES VELOX;

ANESTHETIC AGENT; KETAMINE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BODY TEMPERATURE; BREATHING; DRUG EFFECT; EVALUATION; FEMALE; FOX; HEART RATE; IMMOBILIZATION; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANESTHETICS, DISSOCIATIVE; ANIMALS; BODY TEMPERATURE; FEMALE; FOXES; HEART RATE; IMMOBILIZATION; KETAMINE; MALE; RESPIRATION;

EID: 0038682089     PISSN: 00903558     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7589/0090-3558-38.4.764     Document Type: Article

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