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Recognition and Alleviation of Pain and Distress in Laboratory Animals
stress. They can produce hemodilution by causing splenic sequestration of red blood cells (Collette and Meriwether, 1965); the effect is especially noted in horses.
Under some circumstances, phenothiazine doses that do not produce obvious overt behavioral manifestations (lower than those recommended in Table 6-1) could be used to alter behavioral patterns slightly and should be considered as adjuncts for the treatment of abnormal behaviors.
Phenothiazines are useful in managing postanesthetic emergence delirium, especially after barbiturate anesthesia. A combination of a tranquilizer and an
TABLE 6-1 Doses of Tranquilizers in Various Species
