Animal pains. 2. Assessment and treatment in ruminants

作者：Faure M^*; Paulmier V; Des Roches A De Boyer; Boissy A; Terlouw E M C; Guatteo R; Cognie J; Courteix C; Durand D

来源：Productions Animales, 2015, 28(3): 231-242.

Ruminants are sentient beings, endowed with emotional and cognitive abilities, which can perceive different types of pain (nociceptive or neuropathic) in different types of contexts (breeding / experimentation). Assessing pain is often difficult because, in most situations of pain, there is not a unique and specific tool but rather a set of complementary indicators. An accurate assessment of pain is essential to optimize care and use of the therapeutic arsenal currently available to prescribers. Indeed, since the therapeutic arsenal has different mechanisms of action, it is necessary to quantify pain intensity and the type of pain assessment. Through this review, we will show how: i) accurate assessment is essential for optimal management of pain, ii) an evaluation based on a multi-approach is best suited to this purpose.

• 出版日期2015