Pain Management in Animals

Pain Management in Animals

by Avril Waterman-Pearson BVSc PhD FRCVS DVA Dipl (Author), Paul Flecknell (Author)

Synopsis

An ever-increasing number of drugs are available to veterinarians for use in the control of pain. This new, concise guide gives vets with all the information they need to choose the most appropriate pain medication for any clinical situation. Introductory chapters explain the physiology of pain and pharmacology of analgesics, and are followed by detailed chapters on management of acute and post-operative pain and chronic pain, the problems of pain management and pain assessment. Written by an international team of veterinary pain management experts, "Pain Management in Animals" provides vets with all the information they need to provide good pain control in all their patients.

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Format: Illustrated
Pages: 200
Edition: Illustrated
Publisher: Saunders Ltd.
Published: 21 Aug 2000

ISBN 10: 0702017671
ISBN 13: 9780702017674

Author Bio
Paul Flecknell is a veterinarian with over 35 years of experience working with laboratory animals. He is a Diplomate of the European Colleges of Veterinary Anaesthesia and Analgesia and Laboratory Animal Medicine and an honorary Diplomate of the American College of Laboratory Animal Medicine. He has PhD in physiology, and is currently Professor of Laboratory Animal Science in the Institute of Neuroscience at Newcastle University. His main research interests are anaesthesia and analgesia of all species of animals and in particular the development of methods of pain assessment. He is the head of the Pain and Animal Welfare Science (PAWS) group at Newcastle. The group's current research work is focussed on novel methods of cage-side assessment of pain, particularly using pain faces and developing methods of measurement of affective state in rodents.