Opioid analgesics.
Opioids are useful and potent drugs for the management of pain in small animal patients. They have a wide therapeutic index and can be given by a number of different routes. Some of these techniques (e.g., epidural and intraarticular) 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).
Department of Surgical and Radiological Sciences, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California, Davis, USA.
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D000701:Analgesics, Opioid / Q000008:administration & dosage / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D000818:Animals; D002371:Cat Diseases / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000517:prevention & control; D002415:Cats; D004283:Dog Diseases / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000517:prevention & control; D004285:Dogs; D010146:Pain / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000662:veterinary*
D000701:Analgesics, Opioid