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The equine pain face – improving equine analgesia

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Lindegaard C.
In: BEVA - Annual Congress - Birmingham, 2018 by British Equine Veterinary Association
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SEP 15, 2018
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Animal welfare is an increasing concern, which has led to a higher awareness of pain management in our equine patients. Combined with the fact that better pain management may lead to better and faster recovery after trauma and surgery, this puts a higher demand on us all for improved pain management. Optimal pain management is dependent on objective evaluation of pain, and, over the last two decades, several studies aiming at identifying behavioural and physiological indicators of pain have been published, and several pain scales for objective evaluation of pain in horses have been suggested ...

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Lindegaard, C. (2020) “The equine pain face – improving equine analgesia”, BEVA - Annual Congress - Birmingham, 2018. Available at: https://www.ivis.org/library/beva/beva-annual-congress-birmingham-2018/equine-pain-face-–-improving-equine-analgesia (Accessed: 12 September 2024).

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University of Copenhagen, Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences, Agrovej 8, DK-2630 Taastrup, Denmark.

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