Gareth Hunter, 4 June 2025 12:58 Apologies if this has been discussed before. What are the thoughts of collecting blood from an immobilised animal to treat another severely anaemic animal (from the same species)? Would one give a small dose of the reversal (naltrexone if immobilising with a fairly standard cocktail) to the animal receiving the blood? It’s a bontebok with a severe Haemonchus infection, with a haematocrit of 11.1% That’s assuming the recipient is so flat that it is not sedated. Chris Perkins Circulating drug concentrations should be low enough not to cause any severe effects. I have often collected blood from sedated or anaesthetised dogs – I never had issues with that blood. Erik Verrynne Hi Gareth. You are going to have to sedate it in some way. If it is so flat that it does not need any sedation, the prognosis is grave and the stress of handling will likely kill it. But I doubt if the circulating levels in the collected blood will be high enough to significantly affect it. It should be already binding to the receptors for effect. Gareth Hunter Thanks guys. She is from a zoological garden, but still quite wild. She is incredibly flat, so unlikely to make it. Thanks again. Hendrik Hansen I agree, Erik
