Pigs are one of most common animal species to be used in biomedical models due to their many anatomical visceral similarities with humans,particularly with regards to transplantation.Despite this use,in many of the researches in which pigs are selected for transplantation,the anaesthesia used is an adaptation of human anaesthesia and presents some limitations such as a reduced analgesia a limited control in perioperative period.In this review we show some of the most important conditions in the preanaesthetic management and of swine as well as we review of anaesthetic protocols for the most common types of swine model of transplantation.