RESUMEN
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 (0.8Asunto(s)
Enfermedades de los Caballos/diagnóstico
, Cojera Animal/diagnóstico
, Dimensión del Dolor/veterinaria
, Dolor/veterinaria
, Analgésicos/uso terapéutico
, Animales
, Presión Sanguínea
, Femenino
, Caballos
, Masculino
, Dolor/diagnóstico
, Dolor/tratamiento farmacológico
, Dimensión del Dolor/métodos
, Reproducibilidad de los Resultados