Development of the Horse Grimace Scale (HGS) as a pain assessment tool in horses undergoing routine castration

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Dalla Costa, Emanuela ^a   Minero, Michela ^a   Lebelt, Dirk ^b   Stucke, Diana ^b   Canali, Elisabetta ^a   Leach, Matthew C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b Pferdeklinik Havelland Havelland Equine Hospital   (Germany)

^c NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUNIXIN;

ALERTNESS; ANESTHETIC RECOVERY; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CASTRATION; COMPOSITE PAIN SCALE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HORSE; HORSE GRIMACE SCALE; INTERRATER RELIABILITY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; RELIABILITY; VALIDATION STUDY;

ANALGESICS; ANIMALS; CASTRATION; CLONIXIN; HORSES; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT;

EID: 84898612016     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0092281     Document Type: Article

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