ABSTRACT
The prevention and control of pain are essential components for an ideal anesthetic procedure. Pain in cats has historically been neglected and one of the causes for this is the difficulty of identifying and quantifying the intensity of pain in them. Recently, the "Unesp-Botucatu Multidimensional Scale for Assessment of Post-Surgical Acute Pain in Cats" was developed, which constitutes a new tool for the detection and appropriate treatment of feline pain. In this study, the evaluation of pain through the multimodal scale was essential so that the pain could be evaluated and, finally, allowed the necessary anti-anxiety treatment.(AU)
Subject(s)
Animals , Female , Cats , Pain, Postoperative/drug therapy , Pain, Postoperative/veterinary , Pain, Postoperative/diagnosis , Analgesics/administration & dosage , Tramadol/administration & dosage , Tramadol/therapeutic use , Hysterectomy/veterinary , Pain Measurement/veterinaryABSTRACT
The prevention and control of pain are essential components for an ideal anesthetic procedure. Pain in cats has historically been neglected and one of the causes for this is the difficulty of identifying and quantifying the intensity of pain in them. Recently, the "Unesp-Botucatu Multidimensional Scale for Assessment of Post-Surgical Acute Pain in Cats" was developed, which constitutes a new tool for the detection and appropriate treatment of feline pain. In this study, the evaluation of pain through the multimodal scale was essential so that the pain could be evaluated and, finally, allowed the necessary anti-anxiety treatment.
Subject(s)
Female , Animals , Cats , Analgesics/administration & dosage , Pain, Postoperative/diagnosis , Pain, Postoperative/drug therapy , Pain, Postoperative/veterinary , Hysterectomy/veterinary , Pain Measurement/veterinary , Tramadol/administration & dosage , Tramadol/therapeutic useABSTRACT
Pain is characterized as an unpleasant sensory or emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage resulting from a noxious stimulus that can lead to protein catabolism, stress, immunosuppression, delayed wound healing and acceleration of pathological processes. A dog with recurrent mastocytoma diagnosis was attended at the Veterinary Hospital of the State University of Ceará, and the lesions were widely located in the right thoracic dorsolateral region. The patient was submitted to the surgical procedure of tumor excision and the anesthetic protocol used had as main objective the control of the intraoperative and chronic oncologic pain that would be exacerbated by the surgery. The protocol used yielded good postoperative results and this reaffirms the importance of knowing the classification and pathophysiology of pain so that the veterinarian can take the most appropriate behavior, providing greater comfort and survival to the patient.
Subject(s)
Animals , Dogs , Chronic Pain/therapy , Chronic Pain/veterinary , Pain/physiopathology , Preanesthetic Medication/veterinary , Mastocytoma/surgery , Mastocytoma/veterinaryABSTRACT
Pain is characterized as an unpleasant sensory or emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage resulting from a noxious stimulus that can lead to protein catabolism, stress, immunosuppression, delayed wound healing and acceleration of pathological processes. A dog with recurrent mastocytoma diagnosis was attended at the Veterinary Hospital of the State University of Ceará, and the lesions were widely located in the right thoracic dorsolateral region. The patient was submitted to the surgical procedure of tumor excision and the anesthetic protocol used had as main objective the control of the intraoperative and chronic oncologic pain that would be exacerbated by the surgery. The protocol used yielded good postoperative results and this reaffirms the importance of knowing the classification and pathophysiology of pain so that the veterinarian can take the most appropriate behavior, providing greater comfort and survival to the patient.(AU)