The use of xylazine hydrochloride in an analgesic protocol for claw treatment of lame dairy cows in lateral recumbency on a surgical tipping table

Veterinary Journal

Volumn 192, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 193-198

  Rizk, Awad ^a,b   Herdtweck, Sarah ^a   Offinger, Jennifer ^a   Meyer, Henning ^a   Zaghloul, Adel ^b   Rehage, Juergen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE HANNOVER   (Germany)

^b Mansoura University   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Cattle; Claw; Local anaesthesia; Pain; Xylazine

Indexed keywords

FATTY ACID; GLUCOSE; HYDROCORTISONE; LACTIC ACID; LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT; PLACEBO; XYLAZINE;

ANALGESIA; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL LAMENESS; ARTICLE; BREATHING RATE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAIRY CATTLE; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG POTENTIATION; FATTY ACID BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HEART RATE; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; INTRAVENOUS ANESTHESIA; LACTATE BLOOD LEVEL; LOW DRUG DOSE; NONHUMAN; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECUMBENCY; SEDATION;

ANALGESICS; ANIMALS; CATTLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HOOF AND CLAW; LAMENESS, ANIMAL; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PATIENT POSITIONING; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; SURGICAL EQUIPMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; XYLAZINE;

ANIMALIA; BOS; FRIESIA;

EID: 84860460317     PISSN: 10900233     EISSN: 15322971     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tvjl.2011.05.022     Document Type: Article

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