Low stress animal handling approaches to veterinary inpatient care have been
recommended to reduce the adverse effects of veterinary visits on patient health and …

Objectives The present study aimed to evaluate the inter-observer reliability of three feline
pain scales commonly used in clinical practice. Methods Twenty cats undergoing elective …

Objectives Up-to-date information on the current practices and attitudes of veterinarians in
Australia to acute pain management in cats was sought in 2017–2018 in the first nationwide …

Objective Phase 1: to determine the feasibility of desensitizing ventral branches of spinal
nerves within the rectus sheath using an ultrasound-guided rectus sheath block (USRSB) …

This study compared bupivacaine (BUP), bupivacaine-lidocaine-epinephrine (BLE),
dexamethasone (DEX), and meloxicam (MEL) targeted at specific, potentially painful sites …

Recognition of acute and chronic pain is pivotal to ensuring good animal welfare. Unless
pain is recognized it cannot be treated appropriately with analgesics. Lack of recognition of …

Objectives The aim of the study was to evaluate the appetite-stimulating effect of gabapentin
by comparing it with mirtazapine in healthy cats in the first 8 h after ovariectomy surgery …

Objectives The aim of this study was to evaluate the use of mechanical thresholds (MT),
measured with the SMALGO (Small Animal ALGOmeter), and to determine whether there …

Objectives Pain assessment in veterinary medicine is challenging. Uncertainty in the ability
to recognise pain in animals contributes to suboptimal analgesia. Pain scales have been …

Purpose: To analyze the effect and mechanism of dexmedetomidine (DEX) analgesia
pretreatment on functional chronic visceral pain in rats. Methods: Rats were divided into six …