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Pain Assessment in Feline Dental Patients: Understanding Pain Scales
In this pain update, we discuss the effective pain scales available for assessing feline dental patients. Insights from the British...
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It starts with a pain score
Excellent analgesia management starts with pain assessment. If we understand how uncomfortable our patients are, we can start to tailor a...
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Early detection of OA
The Importance of the GenPup-M Mobility Questionnaire in Veterinary Medicine Mobility problems in dogs are a significant health concern,...
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Vetpain app - pain scales in one place
Most clinical problems and a significant number of scientific studies involve pain. Pain identification, followed by attitudes towards...
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What is PEA?
PEA is short for palmitoylethanolamide. PEA is an N-acylethanolamine - naturally occurring lipid mediator molecules composed of a fatty...
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Retrobulbar block - volume to use
Calculation of local anaesthetic volume required for retrobulbar block in dogs Enucleation is a routine salvage procedure performed in...
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The Big Pain Survey 2024
September is Animal Pain Awareness Month . Our Big Pain Survey is now live! Open to all veterinary professionals worldwide. Pain...
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Extending block duration
Now wouldn't it be great if we could extend the duration of action of our nerve block and offer extended comfort to our patients? In this...
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Does mixing local anaesthetics confer an advantage?
Abstract Objective: To audit factors which influence nociception in dogs and cats undergoing dental extractions. To assess...
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Methadone – the most versatile opioid
In our view, methadone is a really versatile opioid. That’s the reason we wrote a webinar on the topic entitled ‘Methadone, the most...
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Pain Trials as a Tool
Pain trials are a valuable tool to use in managing your chronic pain cases. In this Pain Update we review how we use pain trials, what we...
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6 min read
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Nerve blocks or opioids for rhinoscopy in dogs?
Our latest Pain Update reviews the literature around controlling the response to rhinoscopy in dogs. The main paper we review (Kim et al...
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Blocks for BOAS surgery
For a number of years now we have been performing a bilateral maxillary nerve block for our BOAS cases at Anderson Moores Vet...
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Pain scoring systems - new resource
Over the 20 years that I have been a vet, we have seen remarkable steps taken towards our understanding of pain assessment in animals....
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Our Big Pain Survey is live!
September is Animal Pain Awareness Month, and we are launching our first ever Big Pain Survey! It's your chance to share your thoughts...
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Enhanced Recovery After Surgery
The need for a procedure-specific approach Enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) has been on the agenda of our medical colleagues since...
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Let’s talk about feline osteoarthritis
How many cats suffer with osteoarthritis (OA)? At what age do cats begin to show signs of OA? How many cats with OA do you see each week?...
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Epidural buprenorphine
Is it an alternative to morphine? From time to time the availability of preservative-free morphine for epidural use becomes challenging....
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Questions around the infraorbital nerve block
Although this seems a popular block, there have always been doubts over the efficacy due to the anatomy of the nerves that are required...
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Pain transition from acute to chronic – inflammation matters
For our latest pain update, Matt reviews this paper entitled; ‘Acute inflammatory response via neutrophil activation protects against the...
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