Anaesthesia and Pain Management in Large Animals—Second Edition

A special issue of Animals (ISSN 2076-2615). This special issue belongs to the section "Veterinary Clinical Studies".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 May 2025 | Viewed by 118

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School of Veterinary and Life Sciences, Murdoch University, Perth 6150, Australia
Interests: analgesia; pain; production animals; cattle; sheep; pigs; poultry
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School of Veterinary and Life Sciences, Murdoch University, Perth 6150, Australia
Interests: veterinary anaesthesia and analgesia

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Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue aims to highlight the recent advances in large animal pain management around the world. Large animals include those that are used for food production such as cattle, sheep and pigs. While there has been much progress in this area of veterinary medicine there are significant barriers to pain management of these species, especially on a large scale. Production practices may preclude regular interaction with these species, which makes pain assessment, and therefore, appropriate pain relief, difficult. Furthermore, pharmacopolitical considerations may preclude the use of appropriate analgesia.

Dr. Gabrielle C. Musk
Dr. Heidi S. Lehmann
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • analgesia
  • pain
  • production animals
  • cattle
  • sheep
  • pigs
  • poultry

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