Development of a composite orthopaedic pain scale in horses |
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Authors: | Bussières G Jacques C Lainay O Beauchamp G Leblond A Cadoré J-L Desmaizières L-M Cuvelliez S G Troncy E |
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Affiliation: | Anaesthesiology/Pharmacology Unit, Department of Veterinary Biomedicine-GREPAQ, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Université de Montréal, C.P. 5000, Saint-Hyacinthe, QC, Canada J2S 7C6. |
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Abstract: | This study addresses development and validation of a composite multifactorial pain scale (CPS) in an experimental equine model of acute orthopaedic pain. Eighteen horses were allocated to control (sedation with/without epidural analgesia - mixture of morphine, ropivacaine, detomidine and ketamine) and experimental groups: amphotericin-B injection in the tarsocrural joint induced pain and analgesia was either i.v. phenylbutazone administered post-induction of synovitis, or pre-emptive epidural mixture, or a pre-emptive combination of the 2. Inter- and intra-observer reproducibility was good (0.8
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Keywords: | Horse Acute orthopaedic pain Experimental model Behaviour Physiological parameters Validation |
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