Pain management in veterinary practice

Pain Management in Veterinary Practice provides veterinary practitioners with the information needed to recognize and manage pain in a wide range of large, small, and exotic animal species. Encompassing acute, adaptive, and chronic, maladaptive pain, the book provides an up-to-date review of the physiology and pathophysiology of pain. Pain Management in Veterinary Practice offers specific strategies for addressing pain in animals, including local and regional analgesia, continuous rate infusions, and novel methods of analgesic drug delivery. With comprehensive informatio.

Pain Management in Veterinary Practice; Contents; Contributors; Preface; Section 1 Introduction and Anatomy, Physiology, and Pathophysiology of Pain; 1 Introduction: Pain: An Issue of Animal Welfare; RECOGNITION AND ASSESSMENT OF PAIN IN ANIMALS; Pain Recognition Tools; PAIN AND CONSCIOUSNESS; ATTITUDES TOWARD ANIMAL PAIN; PAINFUL HUSBANDRY PRACTICES IN FARM ANIMALS; Roadblocks to Treating Pain in Farm Animals; THE WAY FORWARD; REFERENCES; 2 Anatomy, Physiology, and Pathophysiology of Pain; NOCICEPTORS; Transient Receptor Potential Ion Channel; Sensory Neuronal Sodium Channel

Acid-sensing Ion ChannelNOCICEPTIVE AFFERENTS; SPINAL CORD; White Matter; The Gray Matter; Modulation of Nociception; SUPRASPINAL CENTERS; Perception; Descending Modulatory Pathways; VISCERAL PAIN; Visceral Nociception; Visceral Sensitization and Hyperalgesia; Central Processing of Visceral Pain; NEUROPATHIC PAIN; Phantom Pain; AUTONOMIC SYSTEM AND PAIN; IMMUNE SYSTEM AND PAIN; SUMMARY; REFERENCES; 3 Mechanisms of Cancer Pain; PREVALENCE OF CANCER PAIN; CAUSES OF CANCER PAIN; MECHANISMS OF CANCER PAIN; MECHANISMS OF CANCER-RELATED PAIN; Peripheral Mechanisms of Cancer Pain

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