Muscle spasms during pre-slaughter CO2-anaesthesia in pigs
(1992) In Fleischwirtschaft 72(2). p.167-168- Abstract
- Six exposures to 95 % CO2 for one minute were made in four pigs. Following onset of CO2-inhalation muscle jerks were observed after a latency of about 15 s. At this time the EEG showed a slow wave pattern typical of general anaesthesia. The short latency muscle jerks were by all probability no emotional stress reactions, but instead the motoric manifestation of a release phenomenon. Therefore, it is concluded that the occurrence of muscle jerks does not invalidate the ethics of preslaughter CO2-anaesthesia in swine.
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- author
- Forslid, Anders LU
- publishing date
- 1992-02
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- Anesthesia, Carbon Dioxide, Electroencephalogram, slaughter, Pigs
- in
- Fleischwirtschaft
- volume
- 72
- issue
- 2
- pages
- 2 pages
- external identifiers
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- wos:WOS:A1992HF71400010
- language
- German
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- no
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- 131cc9e3-f952-455c-b633-05df00e0f886
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