Hypercapnia in a pig, secondary to a human anaesthesia error

The objective of this study is to describe the cir-cumstances of a case characterized by severe hyper-capnia in a pig, during anaesthesia for a surgical re-search procedure-nerve reconstruction, highlighting the importance of familiarization with the anaesthesia machine and technique and also to demonstrate the need for continuing continuous monitoring during a-naesthesia and the necessity of quick reactions for sol-ving the possible complications. It is discussed the case of a pig that was subjected to general inhalation anaesthesia with orotracheal intubation, during which significant hypercapnia developed, due to a human error that occurred before anaesthesia, during the dis-mounting and emptying of the carbon dioxide absor-ber of the anaesthesia machine.