New oral anticoagulants, including apixaban, dabigatran, and rivaroxaban, have been
developed as alternatives to warfarin, the standard oral anticoagulation therapy for patients …

Pain management is dependent on the quality of the pain evaluation. Ideally, pain
evaluation is objective, pain‐specific and easily incorporated into a busy equine clinic. This …

Opioids are the prototypical analgesics, antitussives, and antidiarrheal drug class. The
opioid receptor system or opioid effects have been identified in numerous animal species …

Accurate recognition and quantification of pain in horses is imperative for adequate pain
management. The past decade has seen a much needed surge in formal development of …

Simple Summary Facial activity can convey valid information about the experience of pain in
a horse. However, scoring of pain in horses based on facial activity is still in its infancy and …

* The editors and authors acknowledge and appreciate the contributions of Samuel L.
Jones, Katharina I. Lohmann, Michelle Henry Barton, Laura Javsicas, Anthony T. Blikslager …

Equine gastric ulcer syndrome (EGUS) is characterized by ulceration in the terminal
esophagus, proximal (squamous) stomach, distal (glandular) stomach, and proximal …

Opioid analgesics have been the foundation of human pain management for centuries, and
their value in animals has increased since Yoxall 1 proposed that it was the veterinarian's …

Currently, approaches to pain control in horses are a mixture of art and science. Recognition
of overt pain behaviours, such as rolling, kicking at the abdomen, flank watching, lameness …

Objective—To determine whether treatment of horses with firocoxib affects recovery of
ischemic-injured jejunum, while providing effective analgesia. Animals—18 horses …