For psittacines under 120 g after radius/ulna repair, what multimodal analgesia protocols are you seeing best welfare outcomes with? I’m currently using meloxicam [redacted]/kg q12h and butorphanol 1–[redacted]/kg intra-op with warm, quiet recovery, but I’d like to refine dosing and monitoring to minimize GI upset and stress behaviors.
I’ve had better recoveries adding a tiny “line block” of dilute bupivacaine. You tried gabapentin microdosing?
But in Portland, we book “60-minute prophy” with full-mouth rads, blocks included; geriatrics need 90.
Tracking crop emptying q2–4h? With <120 g psittacines, I split meloxicam “q12h” to q8h and add midazolam.