A route comparison can contain more than one treatment difference.
What the supplied paper shows
Twelve healthy cats received either intravenous or intramuscular pethidine with midazolam. The intramuscular group received higher doses of both drugs. Intravenous treatment produced more sedation and larger histamine increases under the tested conditions.
Limits of interpretation
Route and dose were changed together, and both medicines were active. Six animals per group cannot establish rare-event safety or isolate which drug produced histamine changes. Healthy cats do not represent human patients or every sick animal.
Implications for case review
An expert should describe the whole comparison rather than attribute every difference to intravenous administration or midazolam. Distinguish the biomarker from clinical effects and examine monitoring times. The study supports a limited veterinary combination-regimen observation; it does not establish that a particular human reaction was allergic, dose-independent or caused by the benzodiazepine.
Source and related reading
Source: PMC8604715, supplied full-text paper. Findings are paraphrased; the forensic discussion is an interpretation.
Related: Unchanged Midazolam Exposure Does Not Establish Absence of Every Lemborexant Interaction.
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