Balanced Anaesthetic Approach in a Late-Term Gravid Cow Undergoing Metacarpal Fracture Repair

Table 1

Arterial blood samples from a late-term gravid cow undergoing metacarpal fracture repair. The first sample (T1) corresponds to 1 h after induction of anaesthesia; T2, T3, and T4 to successive hours.

	pH	PaCO2 kPa (mmHg)	PaO2 kPa (mmHg)	HCO3− mmol L^−1	BE mmol L^−1	SO2%
T1	7.35	6.5 (49)	8.5 (64)	27.8	2	91
T2	7.34	6.4 (48)	9.7 (73)	25.5	2	93
T3	7.33	7.3 (55)	6.6 (50)	28	3	82
T4	7.35	6.0 (45)	6.4 (48)	25.6	2	82