I don't know if it's the same, but they gave fluids to my RB terrier Sandy when he had to have a cracked tooth pulled. She recommended it for 2 reasons with him. 1) He was older (almost 12), even though his blood panel was normal 2) He had asthma (sp??) and a collapsing trachea. Since anesthesia tends to surpress breathing and it was a quick procedure, the fluids flushed his system a little faster, in addition it gave her a line already in if something went wrong. He came through w/o a problem and went home that night. I unfortunately don't have any experience with it in a young healthy dog so I don't know that I'm much help there.