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Managing perioperative pain in dogs and cats
Author(s) -
MacFarlane Paul
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
in practice
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.211
H-Index - 25
eISSN - 2042-7689
pISSN - 0263-841X
DOI - 10.1136/inp.k1525
Subject(s) - perioperative , pain management , animal welfare , medicine , affect (linguistics) , cats , postoperative pain , nociception , intensive care medicine , anesthesia , psychology , biology , communication , ecology , receptor
Effective pain management in the perioperative period is important morally for the welfare of the animal, and also because it is likely to improve clinical outcomes. Pain is an emotional experience with multiple underlying physiological components and factors beyond traditional concepts of analgesia affect its severity. This article considers the techniques available to provide perioperative analgesia and how to best deploy them.