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Post‐operative pain behaviour associated with surgical castration in donkeys ( Equus asinus )
- Source :
- Equine Veterinary Journal, Scopus, Repositório Institucional da UNESP, Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), instacron:UNESP
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- Wiley, 2020.
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Abstract
- Made available in DSpace on 2020-12-12T01:30:08Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2020-01-01 Background: Recognising pain in donkeys is challenging because they are stoic. Objectives: To identify the responses of donkeys before and after surgical pain. Study design: Prospective, short-term longitudinal pre- and post-intervention observations. Methods: Forty adult donkeys underwent surgical castration after sedation with intravenous (IV) xylazine, induction with guaiphenesin/thiopental IV and maintenance of anaesthesia with isoflurane and local anaesthetic blockade. Four hours after recovery from anaesthesia, flunixin meglumine 1.1 mg/kg, dipyrone 10 mg/kg and morphine 0.2 mg/kg IV were administered. Behavioural responses exhibited by the animals housed in individual stalls were recorded in four 30-min videos: before castration (M0), and 3.5-4.0 hours (M1), 5.5-6.0 hours (M2) and 23.5-24.0 hours after recovery from anaesthesia (M3). To exclude the influence of insects, the behaviour of six apparently pain-free donkeys was compared with and without the presence of faeces and urine in the stall. Results: When compared with presurgical baseline behaviours (M0), after surgery (M1) donkeys raised their pelvic limbs more (P =.003). When compared with M1, after analgesia (M2), the median frequencies of ear movements (44 vs 16; P
- Subjects :
- Male
Xylazine
040301 veterinary sciences
Sedation
media_common.quotation_subject
0403 veterinary science
chemistry.chemical_compound
well-being
medicine
Animals
Prospective Studies
Anesthetics, Local
media_common
Pain, Postoperative
business.industry
donkeys
Guaiphenesin
Analytical Clinical Studies
0402 animal and dairy science
Horse
analgesia
Appetite
Equidae
04 agricultural and veterinary sciences
General Medicine
castration
040201 dairy & animal science
horse
well‐being
Castration
chemistry
Isoflurane
Anesthesia
Morphine
General Article
medicine.symptom
business
medicine.drug
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 20423306 and 04251644
- Volume :
- 53
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Equine Veterinary Journal
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....9a6c41d6184f3ebae07a3c544f640507