The behavioral assessment and alleviation of pain associated with castration in beef calves treated with flunixin meglumine and caudal lidocaine epidural anesthesia with epinephrine

Canadian Veterinary Journal

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 375-382

  Currah, Jan M ^a   Hendrick, Steven H ^a   Stookey, Joseph M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; ANESTHETIC AGENT; CLONIXIN; DRUG DERIVATIVE; FLUNIXIN MEGLUMINE; LIDOCAINE;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; CATTLE; CAUDAL ANESTHESIA; DRUG EFFECT; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; LOCOMOTION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; ORCHIECTOMY; PAIN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; RANDOMIZATION; TIME; VOCALIZATION;

ANESTHESIA, CAUDAL; ANESTHESIA, EPIDURAL; ANESTHETICS, COMBINED; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CATTLE; CLONIXIN; EPINEPHRINE; LIDOCAINE; LOCOMOTION; MALE; ORCHIECTOMY; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; RANDOM ALLOCATION; TIME FACTORS; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 67649655796     PISSN: 00085286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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