Pay attention to the pain of dogs
Even though dogs are very tolerant, they still feel pain, so they need to be anesthetized during surgery, and they need to be restrained when dealing with wounds. Pain will not only cause pain to the dog, but also have adverse effects such as inhibiting wound healing.
Because the intensity of pain is unpredictable, the currently accepted concept for the control of surgical pain is preemptive analgesia. and multimodal analgesia. The so-called preemptive analgesia refers to the release of inflammatory factors from damaged tissues to induce peripheral nerve sensitivity, causing a decrease in pain threshold and resulting in hyperalgesia (that is, the body becomes more sensitive to pain). Giving analgesics before pain occurs can block this process of general sensitivity. Multimodal analgesia refers to the joint use of analgesics without synergistic mechanisms or/and a variety of analgesic methods, which act at various points in the pain transmission process, so that the drugs can work synergistically and reduce the cost of simple analgesics. Counter-efficiency.
Take sterilization surgery and castration surgery as examples. The pain characteristics after these two surgeries are as follows:
Surface pain and visceral involvement pain, inflammatory pain in the tissue at the surgical site, mild to moderate, pain that occurs quickly and lasts for a short time. By using analgesics of appropriate intensity/duration to cover these characteristics of sterilization surgery, optimal analgesic effects can be achieved.
Sedative/analgesic drugs that doctors often prescribe before surgery include butorphanol/midazolam/diazepam/dexmedetomidine/ Acepromazine, etc., these drugs can often reduce the excitability of the central nervous system, or provide premature analgesic effects through the combined use of some of them.
Partial immersion anesthesia is commonly used during sterilization surgery. There are partial immersion anesthesia and intratesticular immersion anesthesia. The commonly used drug is lidocaine injection. The nerve at the injection site temporarily becomes stiff under the action of local anesthetic drugs, so that it will not hurt when the scalpel cuts it open.
During the postoperative period, if you have been using analgesics, butHowever, if the dog is still not active, trembling, unwilling to be interacted with, restrained in walking, or even howling, the dog must be taken for relevant examination.
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