Managing pet pain
Posted by Cheryl L. True at Apr 12th, 2009 in Pets
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Managing pet pain has always been a challenge because cats, dogs and other animals can’t say where or how much it hurts. Beyond that communication gap, animals, especially cats, often hide their pain.
“In the past 10 years, however, veterinarians have focused on pain relief for pets and managing pain in companion animals will be one of the two or three defining issues of veterinary medicine in the first half of the 21st century,” said William Tranquilli, a professor of veterinary clinical medicine at the University of Illinois in Urbana.
“Many of the questions we as anesthesiologists are asked on a daily basis are about pain and anxiety,” added Alicia Karas, assistant professor of anesthesiology at Tufts University School of Veterinary Medicine in North Grafton, Massachusetts, and a diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Anesthesia.
Owner concern and their own interest in animals has led anesthesiologists, surgeons and intensive-care veterinarians to look more closely at animals in pain and try to do a better job of recognizing and treating it.
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