[General anesthesia in rabbits for digestive surgical research. A spontaneous ventilation technic by...

General anesthesia in the rabbit in spontaneous ventilation, followed by normal awakening and prolonged survival, has been studied here in order to have a series of chronic preparations which the authors could use in their research on digestive surgery. These type of anesthesia requires less personnel, but raises certain difficulties due to the closeness of the thresholds of efficacy and toxicity, the length of the experiment and program requirements. The reliable technic exposed here permits prolonged anesthesia (up to eight hours) with normal survival of the animals. The mortality due to anesthesia was low.