Abstract
Opioids are useful drugs for the management of pain in small animal patients. They have a wide therapeutic index and can be administered by a number of different routes. Some of these techniques (e.g., epidural and intra-articular) allow for the production of profound analgesia in a localized area of the body while limiting the dose and the side effects, and others provide a noninvasive method for the delivery of continuous analgesia (e.g., transdermal administration).
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 757-772 |
Number of pages | 16 |
Journal | Veterinary Clinics of North America - Small Animal Practice |
Volume | 30 |
Issue number | 4 |
State | Published - 2000 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- veterinary(all)