So hello and welcome to this Small Animal Clinical podcast, brought to you from the Royal Veterinary College in London.

My name is Shailen Gisani.

Today it's my great pleasure to welcome Ian Self.

Ian is a diplomat of the European College of Veterinary Anesthesia and Analgesia,

and he's also the head of the Anesthesia and Angesia service here at the Queen Mother Hostels for Animals.

So thanks very much, Ian, for joining me today.

No problem.

Actually, before we can get into the podcast, one of the things I wanted to mention, and we won't talk about it today,

but I'm hoping to get you back in the future on just reading the name of our service, actually, is that an analgesia thing.

Yeah.

And again, hopefully we'll come back one day in the future and do a podcast focusing on analgesia as opposed to today, which we're going to be talking a lot about.

We've got our launch evening as well on the 4th of December when we're doing a free CPD for

analgesia presentation, so it's a two-hour thing. I don't know if we can get that in somewhere,

but that would be quite useful from there. I think I know we've discussed at other times about

the importance of analgesia per se. So just as I was kind of,

netting the name of the service, I was thinking about that.

Anyway, that's for a future time.

So today what I wanted to do was to try and basically provide our listeners

with basically some tips on how they can go about

and trying to maximize the safety around general anesthesia in dogs and cats. And so hopefully we'll cover

some of the things that they need to think about, the things that they need to be prepared for.

And then like with a lot of these sort of earlier podcasts, I hope that we'll come back at some time

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