Drug Provides More Effective Treatment of Pain in Amazon Parrots
MAF Successful Outcome: Understanding and treating painful conditions in birds has improved considerably in recent years. The standard analgesic used in birds is butorphanol, yet it is effective for a relatively short period of time. Nalbuphine works similarly to butorphanol and in mammals provides longer periods of pain relief. With Morris Animal Foundation funding, scientists from the University of Wisconsin and University of California-Davis investigated the effectiveness and duration of this analgesic in parrots. They learned that nalbuphine can be administered to birds in the postoperative period of recovery and provides a slightly longer period of effective analgesia than current therapies. Using the knowledge gained from this study, nalbuphine will be an additional method available to veterinarians to treat pain in parrots and other avian species.
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Dr. Joanne Paul-Murphy, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Posted by MAFon December 27, 2010.
Categories: Animal health, Bird health , Wildlife health
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