How to Interpret Diastolic & Systolic Blood Pressure During a Cat Toe Amputation Surgery

You will learn how anesthesia affects blood pressure and how to treat hypotension. We will be looking at the systolic, diastolic, and mean blood pressure readings to determine if the patient is hypotensive and will be discussing the systemic changes of a pet under anesthesia that result in this hypotension.

We will be introducing the vital signs monitor. This monitor can be used to assess various aspects of the cardiac system, and today we'll be focusing on the blood pressure. We'll discuss the difference between the different blood pressure readings: systolic, diastolic, and mean.

We’ll discuss the key factors that contribute to blood pressure as well as how to address abnormal blood pressure during the surgery. Once you understand the vital signs monitor, I will continue to introduce the other equipment that I use during the surgery in future episodes, so that you can eventually see all of the things that I am seeing in the surgery room.

The surgery today is a toe amputation on a cat that developed a tumor on his middle toe. The tumor is quite large, so amputation was the only way to remove it fully.

If you liked this surgery and would like to see more, here are some of my other surgeries:
Cat spay surgery: youtu.be/hJTdD81eD7g
Cat neuter surgery: youtu.be/bJS7sbKxy_Q
Dog bladder stone removal: youtu.be/tXwW_7wGY8c

For more information on feline anesthesia:
AAFP Feline Anesthesia Guidelines
journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/1098612X18…

Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
1:50 Hypotension causes
2:40 Treatment of hypotension
4:17 Patient monitoring
5:45 Surgical approach explained
10:30 Pain control
12:22 Challenge Question
13:00 CO2 laser safety
13:55 Toe amputation
15:10 Inaccurate reading
16:13 Blood pressure overview
18:55 Challenge Question answer
20:02 Comments Time
21:06 Last episode's Challenge Question
22:51 Post op photos
23:23 Recap
24:02 Up Next