Pain: Systemic and Local/Regional Drug Therapy

Clinical Techniques in Equine Practice

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 135-144

  Driessen, Bernd ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

2 agonists; adjuncts; analgesics; butylscopolamine; dissociative anesthetics; local anesthetics; local regional anesthesia and analgesia; NSAIDs; pain management; systemic analgesia

Indexed keywords

EQUIDAE;

EID: 34547839700     PISSN: 15347516     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.ctep.2007.05.006     Document Type: Article

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