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 Anesthesia of the horse always involves an assessment of risk.

 Potential complications range from the less serious (e.g. skin wounds) to the more serious (e.g. long bone fractures, myopathies, and peripheral neuropathies), and to death in some cases.

 There is also risk of injury to personnel and safe handling should be practiced.

 The goal of the anesthetist is to minimize the adverse effects (ideally at minimum cost) by:Identifying and defining the risk(s).Selecting the best strategy for controlling or minimizing the risk(s).

 Data from single clinics have cited mortality rates of 0.24–1.8% in healthy horses.

 Data from multicenter studies cite the death rate for healthy horses undergoing anesthesia at around 0.9% (approximately 1 : 100).

 The overall death rate, when sick horses undergoing emergency colic surgery are included, has been reported to be 0.12% when fatalities were directly related to anesthesia in one study, and 1.9% in another study.