- Home
- Collections
- Pain management
Pain management
.jpg "Image for Pain management")
Pain management is critical to veterinary practice and is an ever-advancing field. This collection provides a range of resources on analgesia, covering the principles and practicalities of pain recognition and management in a range of small animals.
Updated 2025.
Collection Contents
4 results
-
-
Pain management: keeping score and choosing wisely
BSAVA Congress Proceedings 2025Authors: Matt Rendle, Lisa Angell, Adina Valentine and Aoife RyanThis session discusses the following:
- Do pain scores work (in all species) - Pain scores are increasingly popular and being used for more and more species, but how should be use the opinion they give us to drive optimal clinical standards and welfare.
- Do we give too many opioids - Opioids are the most potent analgesic drugs we have available to us, but do we overuse them, and do we always factor in the side effects these drugs come with and how they alter the presentation of patient, painful or dysphoric?
- Why are we not as good at chronic pain as we are at acute pain - We normalise chronic pain, its often accepted as being a normal part of aging, and therefore less important to manage then acute pain, how do we improve this issue and therefore animal welfare.
-
-
-
Pain scoring in cats and dogs
BSAVA Webinar LibraryAuthor Nicola WaringNicola Waring discusses the physiology of pain, the importance of managing pain in dogs and cats, and how to use published scoring systems in acute pain. This one-hour webinar was first broadcast as part of BSAVA’s Learn@Lunch series. Learn@Lunch broadcasts are available to BSAVA members only and are free to attend - visit the education page of the BSAVA website for details of future Learn@Lunch webinars. Recordings will be available for 3 years via the BSAVA Webinar Library.
-
-
-
Pain and analgesia in rabbits: where are we now?
BSAVA Congress Proceedings 2018Authors: Livia Benato, Jo Murrell and Nicola Rooney
-
-
-
Principles and practice of analgesia
BSAVA Manual of Canine and Feline Surgical PrinciplesAuthors: Verónica Salazar and Elizabeth A. LeecePain is not just a sensation, but rather an 'experience' that includes both sensory-discriminative and motivational-affective components. The International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) defines pain as:
‘an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage, or described in terms of such damage.’
Molony and Kent (1997) proposed a further definition of pain more specific to animals:
‘Pain is an aversive sensory and emotional experience representing awareness by the animal of damage or threat to the integrity of its tissues … producing a change in physiology and behaviour directed to reduce or avoid the damage, reduce the likelihood or recurrence and promote recovery.’
This chapter considers Physiology of nociception; Systemic responses to pain; Recognition of pain; Multimodal and pre-emptive analgesia; Analgesic plans and drug groups; and Summary and planning of rational multimodal analgesia.
-