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Manejo del dolor en felinos en cirugía ortopédica

Resumen

Feline medicine currently has an importance that has been growing in the clinic for several years can be change by long time. Cats today are one of the most popular pets in the world, this has increase the growth of the pet industry in Colombia as well as general and specialized veterinary medical care, hairdressing, and the medicine and food industry. Veterinarians are concerned every day with improving the lives of pets by providing quality medical services, especially in orthopedics, a medical specialty that has patients of all ages and different breeds of cats. Pain management and knowledge of analgesic principles in cats in terms of drugs, doses, routes of administration and their adverse effects always result in a challenge for the veterinarian, this is because the manifestations of pain in cats are not obvious (as in dogs) vary in each individual, which is why it is also vital to learn to identify their manifestations of pain in order to propose effective treatments.