What analgesia are people using after flank spays in a field clinic with no overnight monitoring? Interested in what is realistic rather than ideal.
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We use meloxicam at the standard dose the day of surgery and send owners home with three days more. It has held up well across several hundred cases.
Source: BSAVA Formulary, 9th edition
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Worth adding a local block at closure where you have the drug for it. Makes a visible difference to how they recover in the first hour.
Source: WSAVA pain management guidelines
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Agree with both. In practice the limit is what we can send home with an owner who may not come back.
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