Anatomo-anesthaesiological study of the lumbar segment in dogs

Abstract

Serial dissections were accomplished from the nervous roots and their respective visceral innervations, concerning to the Autonomous Nervous System, sympathetic and parasympathetic, in corpses, fresh dog, without defined race, of different sizes and weights, along the lumbossacral spaces, beginning the dissection in L-1 and concluding this, in S-2. The aspects taken into account for the morfofunctional analysis of these innervations to certify the orientation to apply the local spinal peridural anesthesia, that so help in veterinary anesthesiology, especially in toxemic, pregnant or high risk patients, when the use of this anesthesia, made by injection using Twoy needles, through the lumbossacral space, an easy procedure, but there are restrictions still because the lack of practice.