Peer-reviewed veterinary case report
2022 AAHA Pain Management Guidelines for Dogs and Cats.
- Journal:
- Journal of the American Animal Hospital Association
- Year:
- 2022
- Authors:
- Gruen, Margaret E et al.
- Affiliation:
- North Carolina State University
Plain-English summary
The 2022 guidelines for managing pain in dogs and cats provide a clear and practical way to recognize and treat both sudden (acute) and ongoing (chronic) pain in pets. It's important to notice when your pet is in pain, as this is key to effective treatment. The guidelines suggest that pet owners play a role in assessing their pet's pain and offer tools to help with this. They recommend a proactive approach to pain management, meaning it's better to prevent pain before it starts rather than just reacting to it after it occurs. There are many different treatment options available, including medications and other therapies, to help manage pain in pets effectively.
Abstract
These updated guidelines present a practical and logical approach to the assessment and management of acute and chronic pain in canine and feline patients. Recognizing pain is fundamental to successful treatment, and diagnostic guides and algorithms are included for assessment of both acute and chronic pain. Particularly for chronic pain, capturing owner evaluation is important, and pain-assessment instruments for pet owners are described. Expert consensus emphasizes proactive, preemptive pain management rather than a reactive, "damage control" approach. The guidelines discuss treatment options centered on preemptive, multimodal analgesic therapies. There is an extensive variety of pharmacologic and nonpharmacologic therapeutic options for the management of acute and chronic pain in cats and dogs. The guidelines include a tiered decision tree that prioritizes the use of the most efficacious therapeutic modalities for the treatment of acute and chronic pain.
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