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In this Knowledge Natter podcast, Lou Northway speaks to 2024 Quality Improvement champion, Paul Stanley from White Lodge Veterinary Surgery about their award winning initiative looking at post-operative pain scoring and management in their bitch spay patients.
Team training and updating pain management protocols enabled them to both improve their pain scores and reduce the number of dogs requiring rescue analgesia to just 10% of patients.
Read the case example here.
Read the transcript here.
Additional resources
Pain assessment in the dog: the Glasgow Pain Scale - Royal Canin
Acute pain assessment scale for dogs - The Practice Assistance Centre (PAC)
Pain assessment in cats - The Feline Grimace Scale
inFOCUS Spotlight on Quality of Life assessment tools - Species specific pain assessment tools
The views and opinions expressed in our podcasts are the speakers’ own and do not necessarily represent the views and opinions of RCVS Knowledge.
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In this Knowledge Natter podcast, Lou Northway speaks to 2024 Quality Improvement champion, Paul Stanley from White Lodge Veterinary Surgery about their award winning initiative looking at post-operative pain scoring and management in their bitch spay patients.
Team training and updating pain management protocols enabled them to both improve their pain scores and reduce the number of dogs requiring rescue analgesia to just 10% of patients.
Read the case example here.
Read the transcript here.
Additional resources
Pain assessment in the dog: the Glasgow Pain Scale - Royal Canin
Acute pain assessment scale for dogs - The Practice Assistance Centre (PAC)
Pain assessment in cats - The Feline Grimace Scale
inFOCUS Spotlight on Quality of Life assessment tools - Species specific pain assessment tools
The views and opinions expressed in our podcasts are the speakers’ own and do not necessarily represent the views and opinions of RCVS Knowledge.
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