Controlled, clinical trial assessing saphenous, tibial and common peroneal nerve blocks for the control of perioperative pain following femoro-tibial joint surgery in the nonchondrodystrophoid dog.

Objective: To determine whether bupivacaine peripheral nerve block of the saphenous, tibial and common peroneal nerves proximal to the femoro-tibial joint reduces peri-operative pain following extracapsular surgical stabilization of cranial cruciate ligament rupture in the nonchondrodystrophoid dog.

Animals: Forty-one dogs with naturally acquired femoro-tibial joint instability. Study design Randomized, controlled, clinical trial.

Development and verification of saphenous, tibial and common peroneal nerve block techniques for analgesia below the thigh in the nonchondrodystrophoid dog.

Objective: To document simple and reliable local, infiltrating nerve blocks for the saphenous, tibial and common peroneal nerves in the dog.

Study Design: Laboratory technique development; in vivo blind, controlled, prospective study.

Animals: Twenty canine cadavers and 18 clinically normal, client-owned dogs.

Sequential measurements of the tibial plateau angle in large-breed, growing dogs.

Objectives: To determine the earliest age that canine tibial plateau angles (TPAs) can be reliably measured and determine whether TPAs change during long bone growth.

Animals: 10 Labrador Retrievers and 20 Labrador Retriever-hound crossbreeds.

Procedure: Stifle joints were radiographed every 2 months from 8 weeks of age to radiographic closure of the tibial physes.

Risk factors for leakage following intestinal anastomosis in dogs and cats: 115 cases (1991-2000).

Objective: To identify factors associated with leakage following intestinal anastomosis in dogs and cats.

Design: Retrospective study.

Animals: 90 dogs and 25 cats.

Surgical and postoperative complications associated with tibial plateau leveling osteotomy in dogs with cranial cruciate ligament rupture: 397 cases (1998-2001).

Objective: To identify surgical and postoperative complications of tibial plateau leveling osteotomy (TPLO) in dogs with rupture of the cranial cruciate ligament (CCL) and compare their incidence with those reported in the literature for other commonly performed CCL stabilization procedures.

Design: Retrospective study.

Animals: 346 dogs undergoing 397 TPLO procedures.