Evaluation of signs of postoperative pain and complications after forelimb onychectomy in cats receiving buprenorphine alone or with bupivacaine administered as a four-point regional nerve block

Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association

Volumn 228, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 65-68

  Curcio, Keith ^a   Bidwell, Lori A ^a,b   Bohart, George V ^a   Hauptman, Joe G ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ROOD AND RIDDLE EQUINE HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACEPROMAZINE; BUPIVACAINE; BUPRENORPHINE; CHLORHEXIDINE; ISOFLURANE; OXYGEN; THIOPENTAL;

ANIMAL LAMENESS; ARTICLE; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FORELIMB; MALE; NAIL EXTRACTION; NERVE BLOCK; NONHUMAN; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; VETERINARY MEDICINE;

ANALGESIA; ANALGESICS, OPIOID; ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; ANIMALS; BUPIVACAINE; BUPRENORPHINE; CATS; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FEMALE; FORELIMB; HOOF AND CLAW; INJECTIONS, INTRAMUSCULAR; MALE; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 29844439842     PISSN: 00031488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2460/javma.228.1.65     Document Type: Article

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