Acute pain in cats with Prof Paulo Steagall Zero Pain Philosophy

Meet Prof Paulo Steagall. Hear about his career, where the
feline grimace scale developed from, and what the future of the FGS is.

In this episode, Matt & Carl chat through all things relating to feline pain scoring with Paulo and explore a number of questions.

Where does AI fit with the future of the feline grimace scale?
Can pet owners use the feline grimace scale?

Are cats difficult to pain score?

The podcast takes a look at how pain scoring is just one
part of the picture of enabling us to give optimal care to our feline patients.


Listen to Paulo’s reflections on burprenorphine and how the
use of the FGS has enhanced our understanding

 

Show notes below are the papers that we refer to within the podcast and you can link to the mentioned pain scale resource here

 

Steagall PV, Robertson S, Simon B, Warne LN, Shilo-Benjamini
Y, Taylor S. 2022 ISFM Consensus Guidelines on the Management of Acute Pain in
Cats. J Feline Med Surg. 2022 Jan;24(1):4-30. doi: 10.1177/1098612X211066268.
PMID: 34937455.

 

Steagall PV, Monteiro BP. Acute pain in cats: Recent
advances in clinical assessment. J Feline Med Surg. 2019 Jan;21(1):25-34. doi:
10.1177/1098612X18808103. Epub 2018 Oct 15. PMID: 30320529.

 

Marangoni S, Beatty J, Steagall PV. An ethogram of acute
pain behaviors in cats based on expert consensus. PLoS One. 2023 Sep
28;18(9):e0292224. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0292224. PMID: 37768967; PMCID:
PMC10538801.

 

Evangelista MC, Watanabe R, Leung VSY, Monteiro BP, O'Toole
E, Pang DSJ, Steagall PV. Facial expressions of pain in cats: the development
and validation of a Feline Grimace Scale. Sci Rep. 2019 Dec 13;9(1):19128. doi:
10.1038/s41598-019-55693-8. PMID: 31836868; PMCID: PMC6911058.

 

Steagall PV, Monteiro-Steagall BP, Taylor PM. A review of
the studies using buprenorphine in cats. J Vet Intern Med. 2014
May-Jun;28(3):762-70. doi: 10.1111/jvim.12346. Epub 2014 Mar 21. PMID:
24655078; PMCID: PMC4895465.

 

Watanabe R, Frank D, Steagall PV. Pain behaviors before and
after treatment of oral disease in cats using video assessment: a prospective,
blinded, randomized clinical trial. BMC Vet Res. 2020 Apr 10;16(1):100. doi:
10.1186/s12917-020-02302-w. PMID: 32272922; PMCID: PMC7146962.

 

Watanabe R, Doodnaught G, Proulx C, Auger JP, Monteiro B,
Dumais Y, Beauchamp G, Segura M, Steagall P. A multidisciplinary study of pain
in cats undergoing dental extractions: A prospective, blinded, clinical trial.
PLoS One. 2019 Mar 1;14(3):e0213195. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0213195. PMID:
30822336; PMCID: PMC6396900.

 

Monteiro BP, Lee NH, Steagall PV. Can cat caregivers
reliably assess acute pain in cats using the Feline Grimace Scale? A large
bilingual global survey. J Feline Med Surg. 2023 Jan;25(1):1098612X221145499.
doi: 10.1177/1098612X221145499. PMID: 36649089.

 

Belli M, de Oliveira AR, de Lima MT, Trindade PHE, Steagall
PV, Luna SPL. Clinical validation of the short and long UNESP-Botucatu scales
for feline pain assessment. PeerJ. 2021 Apr 12;9:e11225. doi:
10.7717/peerj.11225. PMID: 33954046; PMCID: PMC8048399.


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