Computed tomographic study of safe implantation corridors in rabbit lumbar vertebrae.

Objectives: A study was performed to evaluate the lumbar vertebrae of domestic rabbits using computed tomography (CT) in order to identify safe corridors for implant insertion.

Methods: Computed tomography imaging of 20 adult New Zealand white rabbits was evaluated using three-dimensional multiplanar reconstruction, and safe corridors were determined. Following corridor determination, implant placement was performed, and imaging was repeated.

Prevalence of pain in a university veterinary intensive care unit.

Objective: The purposes of this study were to determine the prevalence of pain in veterinary ICU patients, to determine if there are predictors for patients to be painful, and to relate 3 commonly used pain scoring systems with each other.

Design: Cross-sectional observational study.

Setting: The study was conducted in the small animal ICU at the University of Georgia Veterinary teaching hospital.