Please Help, has anyone experienced this? Options

[pandora6991]

Hello,
I just found this forum and need advice or information from anyone. Two nights ago I rushed my beautiful, healthy, happy, 4 yr old male cat, Scooby to the emergency center. He was diagnosed with those crystals blocking his urinary track. The vet immediately took him into surgery and I am told there was no problem with the actual surgery but as soon as I arrived home I received a call from the vet saying Scooby had died. I was told that when Scooby awoke from the anesthesia he was so frightened that he went crazy, scratching and crying then collapsed. He just died.

Scooby was not a timid cat and had been to the vet before. He had been neutered at six months with no reactions or problems to anesthesia. I just don't understand and maybe it's my grief and anger over losing him but I am suspicious. I have been in rescue work for years and have never heard of a cat so frightened and wild after anesthesia that they die. Please has anyone ever heard of this occurring? Any information might ease our family's grief. We are in such shock and just devastated. Thanks for any help.

Lesa

[kimberlyheide]

Dear Lesa,

I was just looking at the forum when I saw your post. I lost a very dear abyssinian cat after surgery on his teeth due to anesthetic. Tommy came home and collapesed on the floor. Tommy went back to the vet and died 3 days later after going in and out of a coma. It was just awful. Tommy was only 5 years old when he died and I just felt so guilty. What I found out later is that some cats are very sensitive to ketamine. That is the anesthetic they normally give unless you specifically tell them to give the cat ISO, which is a gas. I guess that ketamine really reeks havoc on their liver and kidneys. When I went to visit tommy at the vet when they were trying to get him to come around, he was acting really weird, it was like there was another spirit in my cats body. The lesson I learned from that whole experience was to never let them use ketamine again on any of my cats. Tommy died in march of 2004, and I have taken 2 of my cats in for their teeth. I now have them use ISO for anesthetic, and they come home that very day feeling almost normal.

I am so sorry about your cat. It is very hard to lose these special angels.