{"id":12009,"date":"2026-01-05T10:41:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T02:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hvoc.com.hk\/?p=12009"},"modified":"2026-01-05T11:29:31","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T03:29:31","slug":"are-multiple-general-anaesthetics-for-radiotherapy-of-cancer-safe-in-dogs-and-cats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hvoc.com.hk\/en\/are-multiple-general-anaesthetics-for-radiotherapy-of-cancer-safe-in-dogs-and-cats\/","title":{"rendered":"Are multiple general anaesthetics for radiotherapy of cancer safe in dogs and cats?"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"12009\" class=\"elementor elementor-12009 elementor-11995\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6c968c9 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"6c968c9\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b853fbc elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"b853fbc\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/hvoc.com.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Website-article-banners-2026-01-05T112027.998-768x432.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-image-11997\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hvoc.com.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Website-article-banners-2026-01-05T112027.998-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/hvoc.com.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Website-article-banners-2026-01-05T112027.998-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hvoc.com.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Website-article-banners-2026-01-05T112027.998-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/hvoc.com.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Website-article-banners-2026-01-05T112027.998.jpg 1366w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-8689dcb e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"8689dcb\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-cbcce0e elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"cbcce0e\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>One of the most common concerns by animal parents is the safety of their animals undergoing multiple general anaesthetics for radiotherapy. Dogs and cats do not lie still when awake and must be anaesthetised to be immobilised and thereby ensuring the appropriate dose of radiation is received each time at the same location for successful cancer treatment. But what is the risk of multiple general anaesthetics?<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ad82c2b e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"ad82c2b\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4d9c680 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"4d9c680\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/hvoc.com.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Website-article-banners-2026-01-05T112152.573-768x432.png\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-image-11999\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hvoc.com.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Website-article-banners-2026-01-05T112152.573-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/hvoc.com.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Website-article-banners-2026-01-05T112152.573-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/hvoc.com.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Website-article-banners-2026-01-05T112152.573-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/hvoc.com.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Website-article-banners-2026-01-05T112152.573.png 1366w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-fd1460d e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"fd1460d\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-18b364a elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"18b364a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>In a recent publication by the American Journal of Veterinary Research (Baetge C.L. et al: 2025), a total of 218 general anaesthetics were performed in 12 dogs averaging ten years old. Dogs were anaesthetised once daily for between ten to 20 sessions to treat their various types of primary cancers and metastasis.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ffd7c1e e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"ffd7c1e\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-0253619 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"0253619\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/hvoc.com.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Website-article-banners-2026-01-05T112302.531-768x432.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-image-12001\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hvoc.com.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Website-article-banners-2026-01-05T112302.531-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/hvoc.com.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Website-article-banners-2026-01-05T112302.531-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hvoc.com.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Website-article-banners-2026-01-05T112302.531-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/hvoc.com.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Website-article-banners-2026-01-05T112302.531.jpg 1366w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-08711d2 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"08711d2\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f598746 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"f598746\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>The main findings of this paper found that:<br \/>\u2705 Compared to the first half of the treatment course to the second half, there was a reduction in the incidence of anaesthetic complications (such as hypotension, bradycardia)<br \/>\u2705 Infrequent occurrences of tachycardia and ventricular arrhythmias<\/p><p>\ud83d\udc49 Repeated anaesthetics also did not result in heart muscle injury over time, and for dogs with existing heart injury, there was only a very mild elevation in serum cardiac troponin marker (cTNI)<br \/><br \/>\ud83e\ude84 These results challenge the notion that multiple anaesthetics are dangerous, and that with continuous anaesthetic monitoring and appropriate individualised treatment, repeated anaesthetics were very well tolerated in the dogs of this study.<br \/><br \/>These findings echo our daily clinical experience here at Harvest Veterinary Oncology Centre (HVOC). Every general anaesthetic carries a small risk, and each patient can experience different complications. At HVOC, we have a specialised anaesthesia team that creates an anaesthetic plan tailor-made for your animal. The anaesthesia team is led by Dr. Christopher Sun, a Specialist in Veterinary Anaesthesia and Analgesia, who performs and troubleshoots each general anaesthetic. Alongside a team of caring anaesthesia nurses, each general anaesthetic is ensured to be as comfortable, safe and smooth as possible, allowing the completion of the radiotherapy course for the treatment of your animal\u2019s cancer \u2728.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most common concerns by animal parents is the safety of their animals undergoing multiple general anaesthetics for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":11997,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,107],"tags":[147,75],"class_list":["post-12009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-animal-health-information-en","category-radiation-therapy-en","tag-anesthesia-and-pain-management","tag-radiation-therapy"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hvoc.com.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hvoc.com.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hvoc.com.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hvoc.com.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hvoc.com.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12009"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/hvoc.com.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12013,"href":"https:\/\/hvoc.com.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12009\/revisions\/12013"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hvoc.com.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hvoc.com.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hvoc.com.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hvoc.com.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}