Lynne Louise Holton, Patricia Pawson, A. Nolan, Jacqueline Reid, Eileen Scott
A composite scale for assessing pain in dogs in a hospital setting has been developed on the basis of observations of their behaviour. Initially, 279 words and expressions suggested by 69 veterinary surgeons were reduced into 47 words and expressions which were allocated into seven behaviour categories: demeanour and response to people, posture, mobility, activity, response to touch, atten...... hiện toàn bộ
Colin Capner, B. Duncan X. Lascelles, AE Waterman-Pearson
In March 1996, a questionnaire was sent to 2000 veterinary surgeons, primarily involved in small animal practice, to assess their attitudes to perioperative analgesic therapy in dogs, cats and other small mammals. This paper is concerned only with the data relating to dogs. The veterinary surgeons considered that pain was a consequence of all the surgical procedures specified, but there we...... hiện toàn bộ