Drug Protocols

Reference List for Pain Recognition and Management

in Small Animals

Pain Scales

Firth, A. M., and S. L. Haldane. 1999. Development of a scale to evaluate postoperative pain in dogs. Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association 214:651-659.

Holton, L., J. Reid, E. M. Scott, P. Pawson, and A. Nolan. 2001. Development of a behaviour-based scale to measure actue pain in dogs. The Veterinary Record 148:525-531.

Attitudes

Capner, C. A., B. D. X. Lascelles, A. E. Waterman-Pearson. 1999. Current British veterinary attitudes to perioperative analgesia for dogs. The Veterinary Record 145:95-99.

Dohoo, S. E., and I. R. Dohoo. 1996. Postoperative use of analgesics in dogs and cats by Canadian veterinarians. Canadian Veterinary Journal 37:546-551.

Dohoo, S. E., and I. R. Dohoo. 1996. Factors influencing the postoperative use of analgesics in dogs and cats by Canadian veterinarians. Canadian Veterinary Journal 37:552-556.

Dohoo, S. E., and I. R. Dohoo. 1998. Attitudes and concerns of Canadian animal health technologists toward postoperative pain management in dogs and cats. Canadian Veterinary Journal 39:491-496.

Hansen, B., and E. Hardie. 1993. Prescription and use of analgesics in dogs and cats in a veterinary teaching hospital: 258 cases (1983-1989). Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association 202:1485-1494.

Hellyer, P. W., C. Frederick, M. Lacy, M. D. Salman, and A. E. Wagner. 1999. Attitudes of veterinary medical students, house officers, clinical faculty, and staff toward pain management in animals. Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association 214:238-244.

Pain Management

Hellyer, P. W., and A. D. Fails. 2003. Pain management for the surgical patient. In: Textbook of Small Animal Surgery . 3 rd ed. Slatter, D. ed. Philadelphia :Saunders. pp. 2503-2515.