Anesthesiology & Pain Management

Dr. Robin Downing wants you to see how you can help lead the way to a brighter future for all pets.

Early diagnosis of musculoskeletal pain in horses is key in preventing lameness and enabling optimal performance. How can a horse’s facial expressions help with early pain detection?

That's your veterinary team and a good client questionnaire. Hear all about it from pain management specialist Dr. Michael Petty.

Here are the most common conditions Lap of Love hospice veterinarians see in their mobile euthanasia practiceand pointers on how to ease clients and patients down this difficult path.

Pet owners need hospice and euthanasia help in your patients rough moments. Brush up on your client communication and manage these exam room and home encounters right.

A research team from the University of Cambridge has developed an automated system that uses facial recognition to detect and assess pain in sheep.

Caring for pets in their final moments is a frequent reality for veterinary professionals. Here are 30 of the most raw, poignant, honest and sometimes rueful confessions to highlight this special responsibility you have to your patients.

The rat grimace scale is a reliable way to determine pain levels in rats following surgical experimental procedures.

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Theres a lot of crazy info out there when it comes to canine joint health and mobility. (Elk antler, anyone?) Arm yourself with the evidence and position your veterinary practice as the trusted source of reliable data.

Experts discuss the use of firocoxib in horses, including benefits of selective COX-2 inhibition, FDA restrictions, and the importance of proper dosing.

In a recent study, robenacoxib injected subcutaneously at a dosage of 2.0 mg/kg/day for 3 days controlled pain associated with soft tissue surgery in dogs.

A team of researchers has found that declawing domestic cats can lead to some unexpected adverse outcomes.

In a recent study, researchers investigated the use of a transdermal lidocaine patch for added pain control in dogs receiving morphine and carprofen after ovariohysterectomy.

Sleeping more, eating less, not using the litter box. These behaviors might not signal pain to the owners of your veterinary patientsunless you clue them in first.

Pain + pain = pain squared? Some advice from Dr. Michael Petty on how to get that pain score back to 0.

Here's our weekly rundown of new and notable veterinary products.

Overheard at CVC: Dr. Paul Bloom, DACVD, DABVP (canine and feline), highlights the steps for a complete ear disease exam, including the vital role veterinary technicians play. (Hint: It's about finding the what and the why.)

Amanda Landis-Hanna, DVM, veterinary industry liaison, speaker, and consultant, discusses pain management drug Onsior, which provides safe, effective soft tissue surgery postoperative pain relief for cats and, just recently, dogs.

This milk protein concentrate from the milk of hyperimmunized cows, should be your next big moo-ve toward managing pain in feline patients

Amanda Landis-Hanna, DVM, veterinary industry liaison, speaker, and consultant, talks about Galliprant, a molecule developed by Aratana that helps control pain and inflammation associated with osteoarthritis in dogs.

The hardest question you have to face as a pet owner. Dr. Mary Gardner wants to help your veterinary patients have a perfect ending to their perfect life.

Monitoring temperature in anesthetized patients on top of everything else you have to do might send your stress through the roof. But with these helpful tips, you wont have to sweat it.

Three takes from three veterinary rehabilitation experts on why you should take this therapeutic modality seriously.

We'll give you a hint: saying, "we've always done it this way" isn't how you should go about pain management.

Kristen Cooley, BA, CVT, VTS (Anes/Analgesia), instructional specialist at the University of Wisconsin School of Veterinary Medicine, discusses what you need to do when designing a pain management program in your veterinary hospital or practice.

Expert Ralph Harvey, DVM, MS, Dipl. ACVA, shares his awesome advice for handling a case of a cat with acetaminophen toxicosis.

At a recent CVC session, pain expert Tasha McNerney explains the different roles team members play in recognizing and managing pain and why each role is important.

Emily McCobb, DVM, MS, DACVAA, director of shelter medicine in the clinical sciences department at the Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University, describes the different types of pain shelter animals may experience and what veterinarians usually have to treat.

Emily McCobb, DVM, MS, DACVAA, director of shelter medicine in the clinical sciences department at the Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University, explains that pain management doesn’t differ between shelter animals and owned animals in terms of what is required in the standard of analgesia.