Pain Management in Animals
A special issue of Animals (ISSN 2076-2615). This special issue belongs to the section "Animal Welfare".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 September 2019) | Viewed by 5472
Special Issue Editors
Interests: diseases of laboratory animals; toxicologic pathology; research animal anesthesia; analgesia; euthanasia; animal welfare
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Dear Colleagues,
The recognition and effective management of pain in animals are integral for ensuring good welfare in all fields of veterinary medicine, as well as when managing animals for production, in zoos, when caring for research animals, and when managing wildlife. Most veterinary practitioners, animal producers, caretakers, and researchers are keen to ensure that animals are provided with appropriate pain management to minimize suffering and distress. Despite this, there are many challenges that practitioners and others face when trying to provide appropriate analgesia to animals in their care, including insufficient recognition of pain in animals; a lack of validated pain scoring methods for various animal species; concerns regarding potential diversion of potent narcotic analgesic agents; inability to access efficacious analgesic treatments; unknown safety, efficacy, dosage, and withdrawal time of analgesic agents for many animal species, including food animals; lack of client compliance in administering pain-relieving medications to animals; an inability to access some animals to manage pain effectively; and potential adverse effects resulting from therapeutics used for acute and chronic pain management in animals.
Original manuscripts that address any aspect of pain management in animals are invited for this Special Issue. Topics of special interest include the assessment of novel therapeutics for clinical pain management in animals; the management of chronic pain in animals; the treatment of painful conditions in food animals; ethical responsibilities for pain management in animals; research approaches to validate pain scoring in animals; causes of under-recognition of pain in animals; and pain management in less-studied species, such as fish, reptiles, amphibia, and birds.
Prof. Patricia V. Turner
Dr. Daniel Pang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- pain assessment
- veterinary medicine
- nalgesia
- pioid analgesics
- SAIDs
- ocal anesthetics
- animal welfare
- chronic pain
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