I really wish vet would give more "full disclosure" regarding their use of buprenorphine with dex-medetomidine for short-term "sedation"....they said they would administer a reversing agent (for the Precedex) but the buprenorphine was not reversed (and really can't be) and b/c of the 22 hour half-life...it took our dog around 4-5 days to recover from a simple X-ray procedure. This is the danger when drug companies start pushing drugs to vets, who themselves don't really understand just what they are handling. Since this presentation seems to use the "brand" name of the drug, I'm assuming a drug company funded this presentation (ie. it is an infomercial). Our other dogs recovered within hours after these kinds of procedures in the past. So the dexmedetomidine was "controllable" but the buprenorphine they use in combo screwed things up. Ask questions people when you go to the vet and get clear answers.
