Jeff C Ko,Aime G Berman
Jeff C Ko
Shelter medicine presents a unique challenge that is different from veterinary medicine in a hospital setting. The shelter and/or mobile unit environment requires special anesthetic considerations to support high-volume spay-neuter and fera...
Ann B Weil
Ann B Weil
General anesthesia may be necessary for patients with significant disease processes such as renal disease or hepatic disease. A basic understanding of the effects of general anesthetics on these organs and the anticipated problems of renal ...
Stephen A Greene
Stephen A Greene
Cerebral blood flow may be altered in anesthetized patients, and this could be detrimental to patients with intracranial disease. Cerebral blood flow is autoregulated and held constant over a mean arterial pressure range of 50 to 150 mm Hg....
Kip A Lemke,Catherine M Creighton
Kip A Lemke
Many perioperative pain management protocols for cats and dogs are overly complex, some are ineffective, and still others expose patients to unnecessary risk. The purpose of this article is to provide clinicians with a basic understanding o...
Tamara L Grubb
Tamara L Grubb
Chinaberry tree (Melia azedarach) poisoning in dog: a case report [0.03%]
白花臭椿(Melia azedarach)中毒的病例报告
D Ferreiro,J P Orozco,C Mirón et al.
D Ferreiro et al.
This article describes a case of Chinaberry tree poisoning diagnosed in a dog. The initial clinical signs were variable and included tremors (muscular seizures) and a moderate limp in the dog's back leg, which evolved to a more severe condi...
Where do we go from here? Future treatment strategies for chronic pain [0.03%]
从这里我们何去何从？慢性疼痛的未来治疗策略
Tamara Grubb
Tamara Grubb
Many of the tools that can be used to alleviate chronic pain in our patients are readily available to all practitioners, but they are not used with appropriate frequency. Thus, the immediate future of chronic pain therapy is simply to do mo...
Traditional Chinese veterinary medicine: the mechanism and management of acupuncture for chronic pain [0.03%]
传统中医兽医：慢性疼痛针灸的作用机制及管理措施
Shauna L Cantwell
Shauna L Cantwell
Complementary and alternative medicine can be defined as the diagnosis, treatment, and/or prevention that complements mainstream medicine, satisfying a demand not met by orthodoxy and diversifying the conceptual framework of medicine. Acupu...
Tamara Grubb
Tamara Grubb
Neuropathic pain is pathophysiologically distinct from other types of chronic pain and is defined by the Neuropathic Pain Special Interest Group of the International Association for the Study of Pain as "pain arising as a direct consequence...
Andrea Looney
Andrea Looney
Cancer, cancer pain, and the undertreatment of cancer pain are epidemic in both the human and veterinary medical field. Concerns over recognition, assessment, and treatment of oncologic pain in our veterinary patients are multiplied when on...