Anesthesia and Your Pet: Easing Fear, Explaining the Facts
Anesthesia and Your Pet: Easing Fear, Explaining the Facts
Anesthesia enables pets to undergo surgical and diagnostic procedures safely and without pain. When administered by trained professionals with proper monitoring, anesthesia is considered low-risk for healthy animals. Join us on Thursday, July 31st at 6PM ET as Dr. Andrea Looney, Senior Veterinarian and a board-certified specialist in Anesthesia and Analgesia, discusses the different types of anesthesia used in veterinary medicine, how risks are assessed and minimized, and how anesthesia is tailored to each individual pet’s needs.
This is a free, online-only event hosted via Zoom (https://zoom.us/). The Zoom link will be emailed to all registered participants the day of the event. Please email UsdanInstitute@amcny.org with any questions.
Speaker
Andrea Looney, DVM, DACVSMR, DACVAA
Senior Veterinarian in Anesthesia & Pain Management at AMC
Dr. Andrea Looney joins AMC from Ethos Veterinary Health and Massachusetts Veterinary Referral Hospital in Boston, MA where she focused on anesthesiology, rehabilitative care, and pain mitigation and management for her patients. Dr. Looney earned her Doctor of Veterinary Medicine from Cornell University in Ithaca, NY, where she also completed a residency program in anesthesiology. Dr. Looney served as Senior Lecturer in Pain Management, Palliative Care, and Rehabilitation at Cornell’s College of Veterinary Medicine, where she established pain management and rehabilitation programs with clinical and didactic teaching. Dr. Looney also served as a Clinical Assistant Professor at the Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University in Boston, MA and as a Consultant Anesthesiologist in human hospitals around the Albany, NY area, including the Albany Stratton VA Medical Center, Albany Medical College, and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
