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ArticleAnimals : an open access journal from MDPI2023

Pain in Pets: Beyond Physiology.

Roberta Downing, Giorgia Della Rocca

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Article in Animals : an open access journal from MDPI, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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2 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Roberta DowningThe Downing Center for Animal Pain Management, Windsor, CO 80550, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-7412-1372
Giorgia Della RoccaResearch Center on Animal Pain, Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Perugia, 06126 Perugia, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-8212-5469

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Animals do not speak a language humans understand, making it easy to believe that they do not experience pain the way humans do. Despite data affirming that companion animals can and do experience pain much as do humans, there remains a gap between companion animal acute pain management knowledge and its execution. Companion animal pain is not simply a physiological issue. Veterinary clinicians can and should embrace the foundational principles of clinical bioethics-respect for autonomy, nonmaleficence, beneficence, and justice-translated from human medicine for the benefit of their patients. By reframing companion animal pain as a bioethical issue, as described in this paper, veterinarians affirm their commitment to closing the gap between what is known and what is done for painful companion animals. This takes pet pain beyond physiology.

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acute painanalgesiachronic painclinical bioethicscompanion animalsmaladaptive painpain

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PMID36766244
PMCPMC9913605

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