Pain is an unpleasant and distressing experience. While it serves a protective function for a
short period, untreated, ongoing pain has significant detrimental effects. Opioids are one of …

Pain management is a crucial component of feline medicine and surgery. This review
critically evaluates studies using buprenorphine in cats and highlights the clinical …

Objective—To determine pharmacokinetics of buprenorphine in dogs after IV administration.
Animals—6 healthy adult dogs. Procedures—6 dogs received buprenorphine at 0.015 …

Buprenorphine is a partial μ agonist opioid used for analgesia in dogs. An extended‐release
formulation (ER‐buprenorphine) has been shown to provide effective analgesia for 72 hr in …

Buprenorphine is a potent analgesic commonly administered to alleviate pain in sheep used
in research. Sustained-release buprenorphine (SRB) is an alternative to conventional …

Effective management of pain in animals is of critical importance but options are limited for
treating acute pain in dogs on an outpatient basis. The objective of this study was to …

Background Buprenorphine is one of the most used analgesics for postoperative pain in
rabbits. The recommended dose in rabbits (0.01–0.05 mg/kg) is the same for intravenous …

Objectives To evaluate the potential benefits of high-dose buprenorphine formulations for
analgesia in cats, serial and crossover studies were undertaken to investigate their …

Methods Buprenorphine has been widely used in cats for perioperative analgesia, providing
analgesia of several hours duration with few unwanted side effects1-3. An improved …

Opiates have a long history of medical use as effective analgesics associated with well‐
described side effects, including euphoria, respiratory depression, constipation, bradycardia …