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Names: Mathews, Karol A., editor. | Sinclair, Melissa, editor. | Steele, Andrea M., editor. | Grubb, Tamara, editor.
Title: Analgesia and anesthesia for the ill or injured dog and cat / Karol A. Mathews, Melissa Sinclair, Andrea M. Steele, Tamara Grubb.
Description: Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, [2018] | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Identifiers: LCCN 2017033962 (print) | LCCN 2017036345 (ebook) | ISBN 9781119036517 (pdf) | ISBN 9781119036456 (epub) | ISBN 9781119036562 (pbk.)
Subjects: LCSH: Veterinary anesthesia. | Analgesia. | Pain–Treatment. | Dogs–Diseases. | Cats–Diseases. | MESH: Analgesia–veterinary | Anesthesia–veterinary | Pain Management–veterinary | Dogs–injuries | Cats–injuries
Classification: LCC SF914 (ebook) | LCC SF914 .A49 2018 (print) | NLM SF 914 | DDC 636.089/796–dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017033962
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Shauna Cantwell, DVM, MVSc, Dipl.ACVAA, CVA, CVSMT/CAVCA, CTN
Medicine Wheel Veterinary Services, Inc.
Ocala, FL, USA
Tamara Grubb, DVM, PhD, DACVAA
Associate Clinical Professor, Anesthesia & Analgesia
College of Veterinary Medicine
Washington State University
Pullman, Washington, USA
Karol A. Mathews, DVM, DVSc, DACVECC
Professor Emerita, Department of Clinical Studies
Emergency & Critical Care, Health Sciences Centre
Ontario Veterinary College, University of Guelph
Guelph, Ontario, Canada
Cornelia Mosley, Dr.med.vet., Dipl.ACVAA, CVA
Anesthesia and Integrative Pain Management
VCA Canada, 404 Veterinary Emergency and Referral Hospital
Newmarket, Ontario, Canada
Michelle Oblak, DVM, DVSc, DACVS, ACVS Fellow of Surgical Oncology
Assistant Professor, Department of Clinical Studies
Institute for Comparative Cancer Investigation
Ontario Veterinary College, University of Guelph
Guelph, Ontario, Canada
Melissa Sinclair, DVM, DVSc, DACVAA
Associate Professor, Department of Clinical Studies
Anethesiology, Health Sciences Centre,
Ontario Veterinary College, University of Guelph
Guelph, Ontario, Canada
Andrea M. Steele, MSc, RVT, VTS(ECC)
ICU Technician
Emergency & Critical Care, Health Sciences Centre
Ontario Veterinary College, University of Guelph
Guelph, Ontario, Canada
Alexander Valverde, DVM, DVSc, DACVAA
Associate Professor, Department of Clinical Studies
Anesthesiology, Health Sciences Centre,
Ontario Veterinary College, University of Guelph
Guelph, Ontario, Canada
All injured, and many ill, patients are in pain, but deciding on how painful the patient is, and the best pain management strategy for many, can be challenging. General considerations for pain management upon presentation are detailed and, as many patients will require anesthesia to manage their problem or to facilitate further diagnostics, basic information gathering is also outlined. Selecting an appropriate, safe analgesic and anesthetic regimen can be difficult, compounded by the anatomical location involved and associated co‐morbidities. This book addresses these concerns, detailing pharmacologic and physiologic mechanisms applicable to groups (pregnant, nursing, pediatric, geriatric) and etiologies of pain. In addition to a step‐by‐step approach through various scenarios based on anatomical location of illness or injury, the veterinary technician/nurse’s role in managing these patients, and the methods of analgesic delivery, are detailed.
While the authors have years of experience managing ill or injured cats and dogs, specific details of a colleague’s practice, or publications, were sought and shared. For their contribution, we would like to thank: Drs. Alexa Bersenas, Alice Defarges, Robin Downing, Mark Epstein, Steve Escobar, Bernard Hansen, Fiona James, Mark Papich, Bruno Pypendop, Marc Raffe, Margie Scherk, Kelly St. Denis, Bob Stein and Bonnie Wright.
As a target audience test, we would like to thank Dr. Felicia Uriarte, McLean House Call Veterinary Services, Barrie, Ontario, Canada for reviewing the approach to the scenarios.
We would like to thank Dr. Kathrine Lamey, Metro Animal Emergency Clinic, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada, for contributing photographs of patients presenting to her clinic. These are included in many scenarios to illustrate some of the injuries our patients’ experience, and to highlight the degree of pain experienced.
For pharmaceutical assistance and researching details of usage, global availability, approval of veterinary analgesics and government controls, we would like to thank Heather Kidston, RPh, FSVHP, Pharmacy Manager, Ontario Veterinary College Health Sciences Centre, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada. We would also like to thank Greg Soon BSc(Pharm), Pharmacist – ICU, Peterborough Civic Hospital, Ontario, Canada for his assistance in contributing publications and specific details on human‐only‐approved analgesics used in various scenarios in this book.
Where specific information is not available in the veterinary literature, we would like to thank Lorne Porayko MD, FRCP(C), CIM Consultant in Critical Care Medicine & Anaesthesiology, Victoria, BC, Canada, for sharing the information available for humans, and his experiences with some aspects, which are incorporated for human comparison into the various topics.