Use of opioids for pain and anesthetic management in horses

Veterinary Clinics of North America - Equine Practice

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 47-60

  Bennett, Rachel C ^a   Steffey, Eugene P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EQUIDAE;

NARCOTIC AGENT; NARCOTIC ANALGESIC AGENT;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG ADMINISTRATION ROUTE; HORSE; HORSE DISEASE; PAIN; REVIEW;

ANALGESICS, OPIOID; ANIMALS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRUG ADMINISTRATION ROUTES; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; NARCOTICS; PAIN;

EID: 0036527770     PISSN: 07490739     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0749-0739(02)00011-1     Document Type: Review

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