Studies were primarily related to the assessment of pain in relation to surgical procedures , and no clear distinction was made concerning the onset of acute and chronic pain .
The metrics used within the tools appeared to focus primarily on the sensory aspect of pain , with no study clearly discriminating between the sensory and affective components of pain .
Objectives The objectives were to review systematic ally the range of assessment tools used in cats to detect the behavioural expression of pain and the evidence of their quality ; and to examine behavioural metrics ( considering both the sensory and affective domains ) used to assess pain .
Comparison of oral and subcutaneous administration of buprenorphine and meloxicam for preemptive analgesia in cats undergoing ovariohysterectomy.
OBJECTIVE To compare the effectiveness of preoperative PO and SC administration of buprenorphine and meloxicam for prevention of postoperative pain-associated behaviors in cats undergoing ovariohysterectomy . DESIGN R and omized controlled study . ANIMALS 51 female cats ( 4 to 60 months old ; weight range , 1.41 to 4.73 kg [ 3.1 to 10.4 lb ] ) . PROCEDURE Cats received 1 of 5 treatments at the time of anesthetic induction : buprenorphine PO ( 0.01 mg/kg [ 0.0045 mg/lb ] ; n = 10 ) , buprenorphine SC ( 0.01 mg/kg ; 10 ) , meloxicam SC ( 0.3 mg/kg 10.14 mg/lb ] ; 10 ) , meloxicam PO ( 0.3 mg/kg ; 10 ) , or 0.3 mL of sterile saline ( 0.9 % NaCI ) solution SC ( control group ; 11 ) . Sedation scores and visual analog scale and interactive visual analog scale ( IVAS ) pain-associated behavior scores were assigned to each cat 2 hours before and at intervals until 20 hours after surgery . RESULTS Cats receiving meloxicam PO or SC had significantly lower IVAS scores ( 2.91 and 2.02 , respectively ) , compared with IVAS scores for cats receiving buprenorphine PO ( 755 ) . Pain-associated behavior scores for cats administered buprenorphine or meloxicam PO or SC preoperatively did not differ significantly from control group scores . Rescue analgesia was not required by any of the cats receiving meloxicam , whereas 3 of 10 cats receiving buprenorphine PO , 2 of 10 cats receiving buprenorphine SC , and 1 of 11 cats receiving the control treatment required rescue analgesia . CONCLUSIONS AND CLINICAL RELEVANCE On the basis of pain-associated behavior scores , cats receiving meloxicam PO or SC before ovariohysterectomy appeared to have less pain after surgery than those receiving buprenorphine PO preoperatively
Studies were primarily related to the assessment of pain in relation to surgical procedures , and no clear distinction was made concerning the onset of acute and chronic pain .
The metrics used within the tools appeared to focus primarily on the sensory aspect of pain , with no study clearly discriminating between the sensory and affective components of pain .
Objectives The objectives were to review systematic ally the range of assessment tools used in cats to detect the behavioural expression of pain and the evidence of their quality ; and to examine behavioural metrics ( considering both the sensory and affective domains ) used to assess pain .