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 the effects of buprenorphine, oxymorphone hydrochloride, and ketoprofen for postoperative analgesia after onychectomy or onychectomy and sterilization in cats.
In this prospect i ve , r and omized , blinded study , 68 clinical ly healthy cats that had onychectomy ( n = 20 ) , onychectomy and castration ( n = 20 ) , or onychectomy and ovariohysterectomy ( n = 28 ) were r and omly assigned to one of four postoperative analgesic treatment groups : buprenorphine ( 0.01 mg/kg body weight , intramuscularly [ IM ] ) , oxymorphone hydrochloride ( 0.05 mg/kg body weight , IM ) , ketoprofen ( 2 mg/kg body weight , IM ) , and placebo ( physiological saline ) . Sedation scores , visual analog pain scores , cumulative pain scores , serum cortisol concentration , and appetite were used to assess postoperative analgesic effect . Buprenorphine demonstrated the highest efficacy with the lowest cumulative pain scores and serum cortisol levels
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 .