History: A 3-year-old, 400 kg, gelding Quarter Horse was presented for investigation of epistaxis. Physical examination: The horse was bright, alert and responsive with rectal temperature, heart rate and respiration rate within normal limits. Management: During a second general anaesthetic for...

Deleterious genetic variants are an important cause of skeletal muscle disease. Immunohistochemical evaluation of muscle biopsies is standard for the diagnosis of muscle disorders. The prevalence of alleles causing hyperkalemic periodic paralysis (HYPP), malignant hyperthermia (MH), polysaccharide...

Equine peri-anaesthetic mortality and morbidity are of interest to anaesthetists, practitioners, horse owners and insurance companies. The largest prospective study, 'The Confidential Enquiry into Perioperative Equine Fatalities' (CEPEF) was conducted more than 20 years ago. It included over 40,000 ...

This is thought to be the first report of hyperthermia occurring during isoflurane anaesthesia in a horse. The filly was anaesthetised several times, the abnormalities that developed during anaesthesia were repeatable and hyperkalaemia was observed all 4 times that blood was sampled during the...