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Precautions

• Regular donor In any case, healthy animal.
  Clinical exam is always recommended before blood collect.
  Iron supplement: 5 mg/mL of collected blood is recommended.
• Restless donor
  • 0,05 mg/kg of acepromazine Im or IV +/- 0,075 mg/kg of buprenorphine IM
  • 0,1 mg/kg of morphine slow IV or SC
  • narcotic (0,05-0,2 mg/kg oxymorphone IV or IM, or 0,05-0,4 mg/kg butorphanol IV or IM de butorphanol) +/- 0,25-0,5 mg/kg IV of diazepam or 0,01-0,025 mg/kg of acepromazine IV or IM
  • 0,1 mg/kg of butorphanol IV 15 minutes before collection.

NB : Traces of medicine in blood are not worrying, except for acepromazine which impairs platelet function. Blood obtained will thus not be used in dogs suffering from thrombocytopenia.

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