Caracterização de pacientes e índice de mortalidade de cães e gatos submetidos a procedimentos cirúrgicos no HV/UFPB entre 2020 e 2022

Abstract

Dogs and cats are increasingly present in families' routines and, for this reason, the demand for surgical procedures as elective and therapeutic methods has increased, thus requiring safe anesthetic procedures in order to avoid complications. In view of the above, the aim was to carry out a survey on the characterization and mortality rate of canine and feline patients undergoing surgery at the Veterinary Hospital of the Federal University of Paraíba between 2020 and 2022. In order to carry out this study, the medical records of surgical patients in the given interval were collected and data on their identification, anesthetic classification, occurrence or not of death, and other information was gathered. The results showed that 56.5% were dogs, 64.2% female, 75.9% SRD, 34% up to 2 years old and with a higher prevalence of OH (33.9%). With regard to ASA, 21.5% of surgical patients were classified as ASA I, 46.8% as ASA II, 22.9% as ASA III, 5.4% did not have their ASA informed and 3.5% belonged to the other classifications. With regard to dogs, 14.2% were classified as ASA I, 48.6% as ASA II, 27.6% in ASA III, 3.8% in the other classifications and 5.7% did not have their ASA informed, while with regard to cats, 31% were ASA I, 44.3% as ASA II, 16.7% as ASA III, 3.7% in the other ASAs and 4.9% did not have their ASA informed. The mortality rate for dogs and cats was 1.45%, 1.36% for dogs and 1.57% for cats. With regard to sex, 1.46% were female, 0.94% of which were female dogs and 2.13% were female cats, and 1.44% were male, 0.42% of which were dogs and 0.55% cats. With regard to breed, the rates were 1.5% for SRD dogs, 1.72% poodle, 3.57% pitbull and 7.14% labrador, while for SRD cats it was 1.43%. The mortality rate was 1.5% for animals aged 0-2, 1.26% for 2-4, 2.06% for 4-6, 3.27% for 6-8 and 1.2% for 8-10. Considering the ASA classification, the overall mortality rate was 0.39% for ASA I, 0.36% for ASA II, 2.98% for ASA III, 10% for ASA IV and 100% for ASA V. According to species and ASA, dogs had mortality rates of 0% for ASA I, 0.31% for ASA II, 3.27% for ASA III, 4.16% for ASA IV and 100% for ASA V, while in cats these rates were 0.63% for ASA I, 0.44% for ASA II, 2.35% for ASA III, 18.75% for ASA IV and 0% for ASA V. Therefore, it can be concluded that obtaining these data is of great value, as they are a valuable source of information for future studies and for changes to the current anesthetic procedures used in veterinary anesthesiology.