Piglets' acute responses to procaine-based local anesthetic injection and surgical castration: Effects of two volumes of anesthetic

Surgical castration of piglets is painful, but practiced routinely in commercial pig production. Procaine-based local anesthetics are used to mitigate piglet pain during castration in some countries. Yet, effects of the volume of anesthetic injected remain under-studied. The volume of drug administe...

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Main Authors: Mathilde Coutant, Jens Malmkvist, Marianne Kaiser, Leslie Foldager, Mette S. Herskin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-08-01
Series:Frontiers in Pain Research
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpain.2022.943138/full