Zoo and Wildlife Animal Anesthesia and Analgesia
A special issue of Animals (ISSN 2076-2615). This special issue belongs to the section "Wildlife".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 May 2026 | Viewed by 195
Special Issue Editor
Interests: local and regional anesthesia; anesthesia and analgesia in wildlife and zoo animals; application of TCVM theory for sedation or pain management in veterinary medicine
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The chemical restraint or immobilization of zoo and wildlife animals can be challenging. The behaviors of animals or the nature of a procedure force zoo or wildlife practitioners to alter or ignore many of the principles that underlie good anesthetic practice in other settings, such as difficulty in approaching an animal to perform appropriate physical examination and obtaining samples for laboratory work, leading to difficulty in assessing anesthetic risks. Even if anesthetic risks could be determined, generally only a few effective protocols are available. Although there is no single anesthetic protocol applied to all animals, conducting research on zoo and wildlife anesthetic protocols and anesthetic pharmacology in different species remains essential.
Over the past decades, pain management has emerged as an essential discipline in veterinary medicine; however, many myths have been associated with pain management, especially in zoo and wildlife animals, which leads to an inappropriate analgesic plan for those species. Zoo and wildlife clinicians face more unknown variables regarding analgesic pharmacology and multimodal analgesic plans compared with companion animal practitioners due to the tremendous diversity of species, marked differences in physiology and pharmacology, and lack of an effective pain scoring system to evaluate pain appropriately. Therefore, studies on analgesic pharmacology and multimodal analgesic plans are necessary to improve animal welfare and clinicians' knowledge in zoo and wildlife analgesia.
This Special Issue aims not only to enhance and create an anesthetic protocol for zoo and wildlife species, but also to improve animal welfare by providing adequate analgesics and plans for zoo and wildlife animals. In this Special Issue, case reports/series, original research articles, and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:
- Pharmacodynamic and/or pharmacokinetic studies on anesthetics or analgesics in zoo and wildlife animals;
- Novel anesthesia protocol for zoo and wildlife animals;
- Analgesic strategy for zoo and wildlife animals;
- Local/regional analgesia techniques for zoo and wildlife animals.
Dr. Li-Jen Chang
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- zoo animals
- wildlife
- anesthesia
- analgesia
- pharmacology
- local/regional anesthesia and analgesia
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