https://www.vetsurgeon.org/f/clinical-questions/25319/anaesthesia-monitoring-and-resuscitation-of-degu Dear Colleagues Could anyone please share tips re anaesthetic risk in Degus, how to minimise it, and what rescusitation methods to use? Had a 0.24kg male Degu for castration, good body condition, who remained very stable during the procedure but sadlyen-USTelligent Community 10https://www.vetsurgeon.org/thread/172729?ContentTypeID=1Fri, 20 Jan 2017 05:21:06 GMT146601cc-3922-4be7-9974-7e1d4e45a66b:5c60f0e9-2738-42f7-a80a-835c98da7cc7CatherineThomas<p>It looks like you were doing most things you could to minimise the risks and it was just bad luck, so try not to beat yourself up about it. There are just a couple of things which could help improve your monitoring if you don&#39;t already do them, although I doubt they would have made much difference. First is monitoring the heart rate using the dopler from your blood pressure monitor. If you have it set up to play out loud everyone can hear it and pick up any changes. The other is that you say you kept him warm but don&#39;t mention how or if you were measuring body temperature. I bought a cheap probe thermometer so that the probe is inserted in the rectum and the display unit is then placed somewhere visible so that body temperature is constantly monitored. You can tape the wire to the tail to help keep it in place. On recovery leave it in as long as possible to ensure they&#39;re not getting cold on recovery, but you probably want to remove the tape when he starts coming round.</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>